[fpc-devel] Why FreeBSD sem_init() works different to Linux?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> OK, now that we established that semaphores are broken in FreeBSD using
> FPC 2.6.0 and the upcoming FPC 2.6.2. I'm looking for an alternative.

> An alternative for two reasons.
>   - I hate IFDEF code, and the semaphore code between Linux, FreeBSD
>     and Windows are different.
>   - Semaphore sem_t structure is incorrectly defined for FreeBSD, so
>     I'll have to implement a special case for that platform.

Why do you not use the standard syncobjs implementations? In 2.6.2 they
should be ok. (only the types exported by unixtype/unix/baseunix are wrong)