From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <8C5B5ACA-74AF-4CE4-B968-2AE392D8069B@orthanc.ca> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lyndon Nerenberg Subject: Re: [9fans] new system calls - semacquire, semrelease Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 23:27:40 -0800 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2150aa32-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 25, 2006, at 8:12 AM, Russ Cox wrote: > much like the old trick of storing a byte in a pipe > and using it as an interprocess lock. It's a brilliant trick. It let us write some very portable code (to windows, too, no less) with almost no effort. Don't knock inginuity. (Or insanity. But that's just labels ...) --lyndon