25 Jun
2019
25 Jun
'19
5:39 p.m.
I recently tripped over the fact that MacOS does not support nameless
POSIX semaphores. When attempting to use them, I get a complaint that
they're deprecated. I can't fathom why Apple would do that. I found this
post explaining it, albeit not very well:
https://lists.apple.com/archives/darwin-kernel/2009/Apr/msg00010.html.
It seems that Apple yanked out support, but elsewhere
(https://intfiction.org/t/macos-frotz-users/41553/5) I'm told that Apple
did it because BSD 4.4 didn't implement them. I was fairly sure that it
did. Does anyone have a more satisfying answer?
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
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