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Subject: System V Semaphores - (nf)
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hpfclj!km    Nov  4 14:09:00 1983


	I have just begun to look at System V semaphores.  Needless
	to say, the Bell documentation leaves much to be desired,
	and we do not have System V up and running.  Can anyone
	help me with the following:

	* What's the benefit to such a complex data structure?  Does
	  it solve some special problems elegantly?  What's the 
	  performance?

	* Examples: dining philosophers, consumer-producer, etc.?

	* What is SEM_UNDO all about?

	Any comments or references to published literature would be
	appreciated.  Thanks.

		Ken Martin hpfcla!km