Nicolas Fleury wrote: [...]
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).
Thx for the link, but I don't get it. How is Microsoft implementation of semaphore is showing that all implementations of semaphore should be avoided? Using semaphores versus using mutexes/conditions should be illustrable with few lines of code. I just want to understand what some developers think is error-prone about semaphores, whatever the implementation (or with the removed boost implementation).
Thx.
Regards, Nicolas Fleury
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