Re: Netscape broken with 2.2.0-pre7

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 08:15:51 -0500

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On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:17:13PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Consider these events:
>
> 1. you check the buffer - it is empty
> 2. a signal arrives
> 3. you select() because you think the buffer is empty
>
> Time to rant!

What are semaphores for? Implementing a circular buffer with one reader and
one writer is probably in the first assignment of any concurrent programming
course.

-- arvind
Just my $.02 worth....

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