From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,283a7b1811f3f2ad X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!130.59.10.21.MISMATCH!kanaga.switch.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!cernne03.cern.ch!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: pragma importing sem_init gives me a segmentation fault Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:21:45 +0100 Organization: CERN News Message-ID: References: <1172350370.771564.253920@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: abpc10883.cern.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cernne03.cern.ch 1172481705 2264 137.138.37.241 (26 Feb 2007 09:21:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@@cern.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:21:45 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9545 Date: 2007-02-26T10:21:45+01:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > It might be better to redesign the program to use Ada protected types > rather than OS semaphores. If the semaphore is in shared memory (and it is, see original question), then I'd expect that some other programs make use of it. There is no provision that all such programs are written in Ada. And how do you make a protected object that is shared between processes, btw? -- Maciej Sobczak : http://www.msobczak.com/ Programming : http://www.msobczak.com/prog/