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to: Peter Fitzsimmons
from: Thomas Seeling
date: 1996-02-09 14:57:12
subject: mutex semaphores

Hallo, Peter!

*** Am Sonntag 04. Februar 1996 um 02:49 schrieb Peter Fitzsimmons an Mike Bilow:

 PF> Speed -- Cset++'s _fastsem's use a combination of lock/local mem and
 PF> system sems to produce very fast sems.  The system sem is used when a
 PF> collision occurs.

 PF>       int _CreateSem(FASTSEM *, int StateOwned);
 PF>       int _RequestSem(FASTSEM *);
 PF>       int _ReleaseSem(FASTSEM *);
 PF>       int _CloseSem(FASTSEM *);

And where are they defined? Or is this just an "internal" feature
of the compiler and runtime library? Can it be used with other compilers?


Tschau...Thomas

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