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- From: ridder@zowie.zso.dec.com (Hans)
- Subject: Re: IPC and shared memory
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.205246.28184@ninja.zso.dec.com>
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- References: <1993Jan2.081756.21863@jato.jpl.nasa.gov> <paulk.31yk@terapin.com> <1ib8dmINNesj@uwm.edu>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 20:52:46 GMT
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- In article <1ib8dmINNesj@uwm.edu> bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Gregory R Block) writes:
- >>The operation of FindSemaphore may be clunky but each task only has
- >>to do it once.
- >
- >Actually, no.
- >
- >Like public message ports, each time you wish to access a public
- >semaphore you must do a Forbid();FindSemaphore();Permit().
-
- Sort of off the subject, but presumably you'd want to do *something*
- between the FindSemaphore() and the Permit(), no? Otherwise, what's
- being protected by the Forbid()/Permit()?
-
- >Greg
-
- -hans
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- Hans-Gabriel Ridder <ridder@rust.zso.dec.com>
- DECwest Engineering, Bellevue, Washington, USA
- "I'd rather be writing MACRO-20!"
- Any opinions expressed are not those of my employer, honest.
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