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From: Lawrence Kirby <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: Looking for semaphore example.
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 96 13:42:29 GMT
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In article <4jlc0k$[e-mail]>
           [e-mail] "Peter Seebach" writes:

>In article <[e-mail]>,
>Lawrence Kirby  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>>>Hi -
>>>I'm looking for a simple example of implementation of semaphore in C .
>
>>Not possible - the C language doesn't support semaphores. You'll have
>>to go beyond the C language to get this.
>
>Nonsense!  You'll just need to go beyond the C language to implement
>semaphores in a useful or meaningful way.  :)  You could easily implement
>a semaphore algorithm in C, it just wouldn't matter in pure C, because
>you'd only ever have the one process.

In that case it isn't really a semaphore, just a flag that marks a
particular region of execution.

>Unless you wanted to implement software-level coprocesses or the like,
>which you could do.

Strictly conforming?

I will defend my position to the last (and beyond)! :-)

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