Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!labtam!eyrie!asgard!bart From: bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au (John Butcher) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Semaphores ( was Re: Message Ports ) Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 91 21:32:10 GMT References: <22103@cbmvax.commodore.com> Distribution: comp Organization: Private Lines: 16 In article <22103@cbmvax.commodore.com>, Michael Sinz writes: > Useage of public Signal Semaphores is a very good way to do this since you > and then obtain the semaphore to play with the data. Just allocate the data > with AllocMem() and connect it to a SignalSemaphore that was allocated > and attached to the public semaphore list. (See AddSemaphore() and > FindSemaphore() in the autodocs for details) Ive never touched semaphores on the the Ami, but Im reliably informed that there is a fairly major bug in them somewhere, is this true ? was it true ?? could it be true on alternate days ??? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Butcher : bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au ..!munnari!eyrie.oz.au!asgard!bart "It is not possible to both understand and appreciate Intel CPUs" -D.Wolfskil