Subj : Re: Boss Told Me You Can't Use Semaphore, But I Have To Do Something like It! To : comp.programming.threads From : Charles Bryant Date : Thu Jul 14 2005 12:37 am In article <1121175011.436906.63140@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>, wrote: > My boss says I am not allowed to use semaphores due to >unexplained reasons. > > O'kay what should I do? Get your boss to explain what's wrong with semaphores. If you don't know why not to use them, you don't know whether any other solution is suitable. For example, if they're unsuitable because they are broken on som platform that you must support, then obviously you need to check what works on the platforms you want to support. .