From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27042 invoked by alias); 9 Sep 2004 13:55:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact pthreads-win32-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: pthreads-win32-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 27005 invoked from network); 9 Sep 2004 13:55:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mtagate3.de.ibm.com) (195.212.29.152) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 9 Sep 2004 13:55:41 -0000 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate3.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i89DtNnO101418; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:55:23 GMT Received: from d12ml062.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.228]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VER6.6) with ESMTP id i89DtMcP100968; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:55:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <31173C0B4EF5D611A021009027CB2CBD04EE2CCE@fl08exm04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sensitivity: To: Blanco Alejandro-EAB005 Cc: "'Ross Johnson'" , pthreads-win32@sources.redhat.com Subject: RE: FW: sem_getvalue() Message-ID: From: Alexander Terekhov Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 13:55:00 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-SW-Source: 2004/txt/msg00112.txt.bz2 > "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.