Subj : Re: Can you limit the number of Posts to a POSIX semaphore?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Wed Aug 10 2005 04:18 am


"Frank J. Lhota" <NOSPAM.lhota@adarose.com> wrote in message 
news:jjvIe.14425$2y2.11099@trndny02...
> I'm looking into porting a Win32 program to Linux. This program makes use 
> of the fact that a Win32 semaphore is created with both an initial value 
> and a maximum value. For example,
>
>     hSem = CreateSemaphore (NULL, 1, 3, NULL);

    I would use a mutex, condition variable, and count value to create a 
semaphore with the exact semantics you want. It's not at all difficult.

    DS

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