Andrew Grillet wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

 MB> Entering a critical section stops all other threads
 MB> in your process, but only in your process.  Other processes and system
 MB> issues such as interrupt handlers are unaffected.  Since the OS/2
 MB> scheduler depends upon the RTC, disabling interrupts would halt the
 MB> entire operating system itself. 

 AG> Well I did go to great lengths to avoid using it. (Actually,
 AG> I don't find semaphores all that painful - except they seem
 AG> to have an evil effect on PMD.)

Semaphores are a neat surgical solution where critical sections would be a
sledgehammer.

What is "PMD?"  Do you mean IPMD, the VA C++ debugger?  What
"evil effect?"
 
-- Mike


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