Subj : Re: Boss Told Me You Can't Use Semaphore, But I Have To Do Something like It!
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Frank Cusack
Date : Tue Jul 12 2005 11:50 am

On 12 Jul 2005 06:30:11 -0700 clusardi2k@aol.com wrote:
>    The way I see it is the flag described above is a critical
> section and must be protected by a mutual exclusion semaphore.

Absolutely.

>    I don't see anything wrong with using shared memory for sending
> parameters to the service routine.
>
>    My boss says I am not allowed to use semaphores due to
> unexplained reasons.

typedef not_a_sem_t sem_t;

Of course you can use a mutex (as opposed to semaphore) and is probably
preferred except that process-shared mutexes aren't supported on Linux
(unless very recently).

/fc

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