Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!mhres!jv
From: jv@mhres.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Semaphore Questions
Message-ID: <2373@mhres.mh.nl>
Date: 13 Sep 88 09:20:39 GMT
References: <7640@boring.cwi.nl>
Organization: Multihouse NV, the Netherlands
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From article <7640@boring.cwi.nl>, by siebren@cwi.nl (Siebren van der Zee):
> In article <45000017@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu> jozwiak@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu writes:
>> I was just wondering if anyone knew what Dijkstra's
>>semaphore functions P and V stood for in Dutch?
>>  john

I remember from long ago ...

  P = Pakken    (meaning: take, reserve)
  V = Vrijgeven (meaning: free)

-- 
	Johan