Re: Use semaphore for producer/consumer case...

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Date: Fri Mar 23 2001 - 13:34:07 EST

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> consumer()

> /* Let's wait for 10 items */
> atomic_set(&sem->count, -10);

That doesn't work, at least the i386 semaphore implementation doesn't
support semaphore counts < 0.

-- Manfred

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