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From: nigel@9fs.org
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] semaphores
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:48:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020116183511.AE27F19A08@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

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As does the Lock module in Inferno.


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From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] semaphores
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 22:54:56 -0500
Message-ID: <20020116035456.13985.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>

A previous edition's malloc used a pipe with a byte in it as a semaphore.
I thought that was a lovely solution, given shared file descriptors.

             reply	other threads:[~2002-01-16  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-16  7:48 nigel [this message]
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2006-10-22 23:05 [9fans] Semaphores Joel Salomon
2006-10-22 23:21 ` Russ Cox
2006-10-22 23:29 ` Steve Simon
2002-01-25 14:53 [9fans] semaphores Russ Cox
     [not found] <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2002-01-16  3:44 ` Russ Cox
2002-01-16  3:54   ` Scott Schwartz
2002-01-16 11:14     ` Boyd Roberts
2002-01-16 15:47     ` Ronald G Minnich
2002-01-25 10:30   ` Ralph Corderoy

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