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From: caw@miroc.UUCP (Christopher A. Wichura)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Semaphores
Keywords: Exec Semaphore
Message-ID: <00253.AA00253@miroc>
Date: 2 Feb 90 21:17:52 GMT
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I am about to start fooling with semaphores for a program I am working on
and have run across something that bothers me.  There is no opposite to
InitSemaphore() that I can find.  When my program wants to exit, which
includes closing down the semaphore, what do I do?  Is it `safe' to simply
drop the semaphore if all ObtainSemaphore()s have been matched by an equal
number of ReleaseSemaphore()s?  This will be a private semaphore so I don't
have to worry about removing it from the system lists, or at least so it
would seem.

-=> CAW
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