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Picking POSIX semaphore names

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From	Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
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Subject	Picking POSIX semaphore names
Date	Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:22:28 +0200
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POSIX only defines the behaviour of semaphore names that start with a
slash and contain no other slashes.  But have users always access to
create such names?  They can show up in the filesystem, and non-root
users do not have access to create entries in the root directory.

For that matter, it sounds annoying if "ls /" lists a large number of
named semaphores.  Have any conventions emerged for where to put them
on systems where their names do show up in the filesystem?  /tmp/
springs to mind - on systems where that works, anyway.

-- 
Hallvard

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Picking POSIX semaphore names Hallvard Breien Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no> - 2012-04-26 19:22 +0200
  Re: Picking POSIX semaphore names Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-04-26 20:13 +0200

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