-=> Quoting Darin McBride to James R. Cook <=-



 JRC>  I imagine.  Peter Fitzsimmons mentioned something 

 JRC> like that in one of his

 JRC>  messages to me.  Do you know if Watcom has such a mechanism?  I searched

 JRC>  through the online docs and couldn't find anything but the standard

 JRC>  semaphore mechanisms.



 DM> TTBOMK, no, Watcom does not.  However, EMX has three such beasts...

 DM> :-) 

 DM> [I just stick with the "slow" mutex semaphores... I have
C++ classes

 DM> to encapsulate them, and now coding with them is easy.  ] 



 :)  Yeah.  It seems I've bumped into another reason to switch to EMX.  I've

 been toying with the idea, but haven't done it yet.  (sigh)  I'll see if I

 can manage to install the thingie and run some timings to see how bad the

 performance really is.  Thanks for the input!



 ={) James (}=



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