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 04:13 pm

Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:

> Don't forget POSIX semaphores:
> 
> sem_open(), sem_post(), sem_wait(), sem_close(), sem_unlink(). 
> 
> They should be able to work both between threads and between processes, but
> not all OSes support them fully.

Good point.  This would be a more natural comparison with sysV 
semaphores in any case.

Chris

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