a poor implementation is no reason to ass/u/me that the concept is poor At Wednesday 2003-06-04 12:23, you wrote:
Nicolas Fleury wrote: [...] > > http://google.com/groups?selm=3CED3306.DF6DB829%40web.de > > (Subject: Re: many semaphores) > > Would it be possible to post some code that "experience has shown" to be > error-prone using semaphores comparing with conditions/mutexes?
Sure... thanks to the Microsoft Corp.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndllpro/html/msdn_metrsect.asp
Take a look at their brain-damaged "metered section" semaphore implementation. Note that MS "auto-reset event" is nothing but a binary sema (well, brain-dead "pulsing" aside for a moment).
regards, alexander.
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