From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:37:01 -0500
From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@galapagos.cse.psu.edu
Subject: Plan 9 process coordination?
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| Does Plan 9 have some additional (maybee hidden) process coordination functions
| like semaphores, which are not mentioned in the programmers manual?

ALEF has more convenient mutual exclusion constructs.

With a little care, a pipe can function like a binary semaphore.