Subj : Re: Can you limit the number of Posts to a POSIX semaphore?
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Frank J. Lhota
Date : Wed Aug 10 2005 02:35 pm

David Schwartz wrote:
> "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.

How about a pair of POSIX semaphores, one whose value is the number is 
seizes that can be performed, the other is the number of releases that 
can be performed?

>     DS
> 
> 


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