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* osdep: hack to fix build with low quality pthreads-w32 headerswm42014-09-201-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When compiling semaphore_osx.c on win32, the following error happened: /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/include/semaphore.h:160:6: error: unknown type name 'mode_t' This is because this system header references symbols that are not not defined anywhere. This is clearly a bug in pthreads-w32, but has been known and unfixed since 2012, so add a hack to fix it. We build semaphore_osx.c this way because it saves us an extra configure check. On win32, Linux, etc. it's empty and contains "#include <semaphore.h>" only. Should fix #1108.
* osdep: add POSIX semaphore emulation for OSXwm42014-09-101-0/+58
OSX is POSIX conformant, but it's a sad joke: it provides the <semaphore.h> prototype as the standard demands, but they're empty wrappers, and all functions just return ENOSYS. Emulate them similar to how osdep/io.h emulate filesystem functions on Windows. By including the header, working sem_* functions become available. To make it async-signal safe, use a pipe for wakeup (write() is AS-safe, but mutexes can't be). Actually I'm not sure anymore if we really need AS-safety, but for now the emulation can do it. On Linux, the system provides a far more efficient and robust implementation. We definitely want to avoid using the emulation if possible, so this code is active on OSX only. For convenience we always build the source file though, even if the implementation is disabled and no actual code is generated. (Linux provides working semaphores, but is formally not POSIX conformant. On OSX it's the opposite. Is POSIX a complete joke?)