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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Procure() and Vacate()
Message-ID: <8138@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 21:12:48 GMT
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Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <18139@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (David C. Navas) writes:
>In article <8127@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes:
>>	ObtainSemaphoreList()/ReleaseSemaphoreList().
>
>If that's true, then somebody is confused.  Doesn't OSList() wait until it
>gets the *whole* list of semaphores.  I only want to wait until *one* of them
>is available.

	Ah, I misunderstood the question.  ObtainSemaphoreList waits till all
the semaphores are available.  Try the message-based semaphores (or start
one task/semaphore, and have the task notify the main process when it gets
the semaphore - a real pain).

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"