Subj : Re: Is there a deadlock or race condition here?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : lindahlb
Date : Thu Apr 14 2005 02:59 pm

I explained quite clearly that produce and consume are semaphores and
clearly describe what the wait and set methods do (they are SysV
semaphores to be more specific - MAXIMUM being the SysV standard
maximum value - I don't have the docs on hand).

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