Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!sci.kun.nl!cs.kun.nl!rhialto From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf'Rhialto'Seibert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: Semaphores ( was Re: Message Ports ) Message-ID: <3636@wn1.sci.kun.nl> Date: 10 Jun 91 15:48:29 GMT References: <22103@cbmvax.commodore.com> Sender: root@sci.kun.nl Distribution: comp Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands Lines: 17 In article bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au (John Butcher) writes: >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 ??? Only the function that makes semaphores public is broken. I guess it is called AddSemaphore. You can easily replace it with something like Forbid(); Enqueue( ... ExecBase->SemaphoreList ...); Permit() or something along those lines. But if you don't make them public there is no problem at all, they work quite well. > John Butcher : bart@asgard.pub.uu.oz.au > ..!munnari!eyrie.oz.au!asgard!bart -- Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert rhialto@cs.kun.nl How can you be so stupid if you're identical to me? -Robert Silverberg