Bug#177486: patch for POSIX semaphore in BTS #177486

[Robert Millan]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 10:42:41AM -0500, James A. Morrison wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:50, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:49:22PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > > > #177486: POSIX semaphore 
> > > 
> > > This implementation is not POSIX compliant.
> > 
> > Oops, sorry, I mixed this up with something else.  Fact is I don't have an
> > opinion on that one, and it's up to Neal again.
> 
>  Neal has said he will not take the patch as is and I haven't got to
> testing a version using just _block and _wakeup.

I don't know what's wrong with this patch, but package "gnome-vfs" needs
posix semaphores and the implementation in this patch worked well for me
to compile it. GNOME is broken without this, please apply.

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