Subj : Re: Boss Told Me You Can't Use Semaphore, But I Have To Do Something
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Chris Friesen
Date : Wed Jul 13 2005 09:26 am

David Schwartz wrote:

>     By the way, you can always use a file and protect it with file locks. 
> Otherwise, you'd need something ugly like a process-shared mutex.

Maybe I'm missing something:  from the original post this is all between 
processes already, so why is a process-shared mutex uglier than a 
process-shared semaphore or a sysV semaphore?

Chris

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