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Bug#816742: libc6: sem_post/sem_wait not working for 32bit to 64bit inter-process communication



On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 7:28 AM, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
> control: forwarded -1 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17980

Semaphore interoperability between two different ABIs has never been
supported. It worked because you were lucky and the implementation was
flawed. To fix the implementation flaws (which are real), we've had to
adopt slightly different algorithms for 32-bit and 64-bit.

Cheers,
Carlos.


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