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Posted to dev@apr.apache.org by Nestor Dutko <ne...@oracle.com> on 2005/03/09 23:44:56 UTC

APR and support of UNIX platforms?

> I noticed that the APR release indicates support for UNIX. What flavors of
> UNIX are fully supported? I looked in the STATUS document for 1.1.0 and
> found that some functionality for atomic operations for example still are
> missing from HPUX and AIX.
> 
> Please reply to me directly as I am not on the distribution list.
> 
> Thanks!
> Nestor

Re: APR and support of UNIX platforms?

Posted by Justin Erenkrantz <ju...@erenkrantz.com>.

--On Wednesday, March 9, 2005 5:44 PM -0500 Nestor Dutko 
<ne...@oracle.com> wrote:

> I noticed that the APR release indicates support for UNIX. What flavors
> of UNIX are fully supported? I looked in the STATUS document for 1.1.0
> and found that some functionality for atomic operations for example still
> are missing from HPUX and AIX.

On platforms without specialized atomics (or that we don't know about it), 
we fall back on a generic mutex-based atomic system.  -- justin