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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: IPC and shared memory
- Message-ID: <paulk.31yk@terapin.com>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 18:35:12 GMT
- References: <1993Jan2.081756.21863@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Organization: BBS
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- > IMHO FindSemaphore is a waste of time if your usage of it is purely
- > for the convenience of knowing it by name. I suggest simply making
- > the signal semaphore globally known or just to the tasks/processes
- > that wish to use it and forgo the FindSemaphore bit all together.
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- HOW do you "make it globally known"?? That's what the name is for.
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- The operation of FindSemaphore may be clunky but each task only has
- to do it once.
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