posix semaphore support?

[Christian Heimes]

Neal Becker wrote:
> Does that provide semaphores between unrelated processes?

No, it just provides unshared semaphores. You can either create your own 
Python extensions or you can use ctypes if you need a shared or named 
semaphore.

Depending on your requirements you can choose between sem_init() or 
sem_open() from semaphore.h or the IPC API from sys/sem.h.

Christian