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Can't use semaphore.h under GNU/Linux Debian ?

Posté le dimanche 10 décembre 2006 à 03:18 PM

If you tried to compile a program using the header file semaphore.h under GNU/Linux Debian (who uses LinuxThreads in order to provide the semaphore part of POSIX IPC tools); remember to include pthread.h before.

Otherwise... you're going to get a nice error :

/usr/include/semaphore.h:34: error: field '__sem_lock' has incomplete
type

... since the semaphore.h is using a few types defined by pthread.h (or another header included by pthread.h). I opened a thread on the libc6-dev debian package, as a whishlist item.