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

Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:34:07 +0100


> 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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