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

Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:54:25 +0200

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:34:07PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > 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.

Does that mean that kernel semaphore can not be used for something
else than mutual exclusion ?

Stelian.

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