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POSIX named mutexes?

Someone said he *thought* that the POSIX standard supported the idea of named mutexes. But we have not been able to find a source to verify that. Just wondering if anyone here knows whether the POSIX standard does or does not.
Many thanks!

[250 byte] By [KevinHall] at [2007-11-19 10:50:34]

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# 1 Re: POSIX named mutexes?

Posix Multithreading Reference ( http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/multi-thread/multi-thread.html#thread_mutex). Maybe you find some answers there. Anyway you could use BOOST's multithreading libraries too.

NoHero at 2007-11-9 0:46:14 >

# 2 Re: POSIX named mutexes?

Thanks for the link. Yeah, there's no named mutexes mentioned there either. I still don't think they exist.

I wish I could use boost, but I'm stuck on a C project right now. No C++. But I'll check boost's sources to make sure I'm not missing something obvious. Thanks for the suggestion.

KevinHall at 2007-11-9 0:47:14 >

# 3 Re: POSIX named mutexes?

Boost doesn't support named mutexes either, even though they do exist for some OSes. (Since they don't exist on that many OSes, I'm not surprised that boost hasn't supported them.)

KevinHall at 2007-11-9 0:48:19 >

# 4 Re: POSIX named mutexes?

Can't make due with named semaphores?

earl at 2007-11-9 0:49:13 >

# 5 Re: POSIX named mutexes?

Yes, I can. That's why I started this thread ( http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1187010#post1187010) a couple days ago. But it would be easier to use a mutex since that is what a mutex is designed for.

KevinHall at 2007-11-9 0:50:14 >

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