> We've speculated about using Posix semaphores instead, on platforms

For spinlocks we should use pthread mutex-es.

> where those are available.  I think Bruce was concerned about the

And nutex-es are more portable than semaphores.

Vadim

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:10:43 -0800
"Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev@SECTORBASE.COM>
RE: Re[4]: Allowing WAL fsync to be done via O_SYNC 