From: Blanco Alejandro-EAB005 <Alex.Blanco@motorola.com>
To: "'Alexander Terekhov'" <TEREKHOV@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "'Ross Johnson'" <rpj@ise.canberra.edu.au>,
pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: FW: sem_getvalue()
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 14:12:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31173C0B4EF5D611A021009027CB2CBD04EE2CD1@fl08exm04> (raw)
What's xbd? I was looking at an appendix for a POSIX spec and it defined it non-optionally.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Terekhov [mailto:TEREKHOV@de.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 9:55 AM
To: Blanco Alejandro-EAB005
Cc: 'Ross Johnson'; pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: FW: sem_getvalue()
> "The updated value represents an actual semaphore value..."
Semaphore value is either zero or positive. See XBD. Reporting
number of waiters as negative value is "optional" and you shall not rely on this feature. As I said, stay away from semas (if you have a choice).
regards,
alexander.
next reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 14:12 Blanco Alejandro-EAB005 [this message]
2004-09-09 14:26 ` Alexander Terekhov
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2004-09-09 12:59 Blanco Alejandro-EAB005
2004-09-09 13:55 ` Alexander Terekhov
2004-09-08 20:17 Blanco Alejandro-EAB005
2004-09-08 20:34 ` Alexander Terekhov
2004-09-08 18:59 Blanco Alejandro-EAB005
2004-09-08 19:59 ` Alexander Terekhov
2004-09-09 9:11 ` Ross Johnson
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