On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote: > * Carlos O'Donell: > >> The nptl enabled hppa libc packages are in experimental. >> e.g. >> apt-get -t experimental install libc6 > > Out of curiosity, does this version support cross-process mutexes? Yes, two applications that are compiled for NPTL can share a mutex via shared memory by using pthread_mutexattr_setpshared. Cheers, Carlos.