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From: wbonner@eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: Making a non exclusive semaphore (like on Unix)
Keywords: semaphore, counter, exclusive
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.234802.5436@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 23:48:02 GMT
References: <18131@milton.u.washington.edu>
Reply-To: wbonner@yoda.UUCP (Wim Bonner)
Organization: Washington State University, Pullman
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In article <18131@milton.u.washington.edu> wolf@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel) writes:
>Is there any mechanisme similar to Unixes' semaphores, ie I'd like to get
>a semaphore with units: 
>  - one thread increments it (so never blocking)
>  - another thread uses units and gets blocked only when the counter is 0.
>(it's for managing a packet layer window in a comm package).

I know that when you use semaphores in OS/2, they are not really sspecified as
to the way they are impleneted internally, but a DosSemWait will wait for the 
semaphore to be completely cleared.  (Multple DosSemSet()'s seem to increment 
the counter, and you must use the same number of DosSemClear()'s to get the
semaphore back to the original state.)  A DosSemRequest will wait till the 
sem has been cleared, and then set it.

Hope this helps...
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