DM> First problem:

 DM>         I'm trying to block Sq386p.exe which uses 
 DM> \SEM\SQUISH\DEFAULT, however the Semaphores included 
 DM> in the Warp toolkit want me to use \SEM32\ to start.  
 DM> Can I just use \SEM\ anyway?

Not with the 32bit calls.  I wrote that piece of squish code, when
everything was 16bit,  and I guess Scott left it that way to be backwards
compatible.

 [Tip: little known squish feature: the name of the sem can be
       specified with the BBSSEM env var,  if you want to have
       two (or more) copies of squish running that do not share
       any files]

Here is the code...You're best bet is to plop it into a 16bit dll and call
it from your 32bit code (when I first created it,  it WAS a dll I think,
but it got integrated into squishp at some point).  Look for something
called something like smserial.dll.

If you try to compile it for 32bits,  you might have to change the sem
calls to "Dos16CreateSem", etc,  and prototype them yourself.

 static  HSYSSEM hssm;
 static void cdecl _loadds clearsem(void)
 {
     DosSemClear(hssm);
     DosCloseSem(hssm);
 }

 void serialize(char *SemName)
 {
     USHORT rc;

     if(!SemName)
         SemName = "/sem/squish/default";

     rc = DosCreateSem(CSEM_PUBLIC, &hssm, SemName);
     if(rc == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS){
         rc = DosOpenSem(&hssm, SemName);
         if(!rc){
             printf("Waiting for %s to clear...\n", SemName);
             rc = DosSemRequest(hssm, -1L);
             if(rc == ERROR_SEM_OWNER_DIED)
                 rc = 0;
         }
         else
             printf("OS/2 error %04x opening semaphore '%s'\n",
rc, SemName);
     }
     else if(!rc){
         DosSemRequest(hssm, -1L);
     }
     else
         printf("OS/2 error %04x creating semaphore '%s'\n", rc, SemName);
     if(rc)
         exit(1);
     else
         onexit((onexit_t)clearsem);
 }


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