On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 10:21:53PM -0400, Joshua Pritikin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 11:52:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:51:09PM -0400, Joshua Pritikin wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:30:06PM -0400, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> > > > Since no one replied, I think I'm going to try POSIX semaphores. They
> > > > are "newer" and "less complicate" according to Stevens.
> > >
> > > Oh, wait! Graham wrote IPC::Semaphore way back in 1997... Hm.
> >
> > I did, but I cannot remember what I did now.
>
> It turned out that semaphores were easier than I expected. Now that I
> understand them, I'm even more skeptical that they belong in Event. I'm
> not saying that I would reject an implementation, but they seem like too
> specialized a mechanism for commonplace Event'ing.
>
I would agree that maybe they do not belong in the main distribution,
but maybe in a separate dist of rarly used watchers.
> Graham, I still have an old non-working pm file in the demo directory
> that implemented semaphores for Event.
non-working ? what broke.
Graham.
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For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being
anything else. -- Winston Churchill
