In a message dated 08-25-99, Lee Aroner said to David Noon about "Rodent"

Hi Lee,

LA>   Ralf's list is pretty incomplete as far as OS/2 goes...

Since his list is titled "DOS Interrupts" that is to be expected.

DN> However, none of the exposed API calls relates to threading or
  > concurrent device access.

LA>   There are some semaphore calls available, IIRC, which could 
LA>   possibly be used for critical section purposes or suchlike.

These are only useful across address spaces. They cannot be used within a
VDM address space to serialize concurrent units of work, as a VDM cannot
have concurrent units of work. You could use them for concurrent VDM
sessions, I suppose.

LA>   Another thing that would be nice would be a close API like the 
LA>   one in W9x or DV/DVX.

What do you mean by "close API"?

Regards

Dave

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