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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: Some "general" IPC questions..... I think...
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Date: 24 Mar 88 08:14:43 GMT
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Keywords: Actual message passing "system".. overhead....

In article <507@cunixc.columbia.edu> (Kenneth Suh) writes:
->The problem that I foresee with this idea is how do you keep two
->processes from writing to the area of shared memory?  Do you want to
->have test and set procedures?  Does someone want to port Concurrent
->Euclid and set up a monitor?

Actually, AmigaDOS has a very capable set of Semaphore routines with 
Test and Set calls built in. See the Autodocs.

--Chuck McManis
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