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From: himacdon@maytag.uwaterloo.ca (Hamish Macdonald)
Subject: Re: What's a Hanging Forbid!?
In-Reply-To: chris@genly.UUCP's message of 25 Jan 91 14:50:05 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.171326.6363@maytag.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 91 17:13:26 GMT
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>>>>> In article <chris.8320@genly.UUCP>, chris@genly.UUCP (Chris Hind Genly) writes:

Chris> You would use Forbid()/Permit() when accessing structures
Chris> shared by several tasks to prevent the structure from being
Chris> modified while you were working on it.

No, you should use SEMAPHORES when accessing structures shared by
several tasks to prevent the structure from being modified while you
were working on it.
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