[ale] Perl + Semaphores

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> writes:

    Chris> Guys/Gals, Is there a perl module like POSIX::IPC that will
    Chris> allow me to work with semaphores?  I need to do some
    Chris> locking.  If not I can easily crank one out in C and XSUBS.

NAME
       IPC::Semaphore - SysV Semaphore IPC object class

SYNOPSIS
           use IPC::SysV qw(IPC_PRIVATE S_IRWXU IPC_CREAT);
           use IPC::Semaphore;

           $sem = new IPC::Semaphore(IPC_PRIVATE, 10, S_IRWXU | IPC_CREAT);


See also IPC::Shareable from CPAN if you need to share whole datastructures.

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