stan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (See-Mong Tan) (07/21/89)
Hi, I'd like to use the ndbm(3) package on a 4.3 system for some record keeping. The only problem is it involves a couple of processes in parallel and I'm not sure if the routines in there do atomic operations, or if I'll have to resort to flock(2)s to make sure accesses are atomic on a shared database. Could someone please enlighten me? Keeping in tune with IPC, are there semaphore or monitor level system calls in 4.3? I know of semops in Sys V, but I'd really like something for BSD. Thanks in advance, and please mail, since I don't usually read this group. -- stan@cory.berkeley.edu stan@lbl-csam.arpa