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From: lsalomo@hubcap.clemson.edu (lsalomo)
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Subject: Re: Counting semaphores?
Message-ID: <11219@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 29 Oct 90 14:39:02 GMT
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From article <90Oct26.163804edt.8236@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>, by green@vis.toronto.edu (Anthony Thomas Green):
> Is it possible to set up a system semaphore that must be cleared as many
> times as it has been set in order for a waiting thread to become
> runnable?

I always thought that's the way RAM semaphores were implemented?

Cheers,
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