Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA From: cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Semaphores Message-ID: <809@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 18:25:33 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.809 Posted: Mon Aug 19 18:25:33 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 05:10:07 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 12 /* Has anybody figured out how to use System V { while (1) printf(".2") } semaphores? Are they `real' semaphores (i.e. Dijkstra-like)? Are they better (more general)? Does TPC (The Phone Company) plan to rewrite its documentation so that people can figure them out? I eat manuals for lunch, so if *I* don't get it, a lot of people won't either. Is there a tutorial buried somewhere in the documentation? (To be fair, I think BSD's IPC would be abstruse without the tutorial as well). jim cottrell@nbs */ ------