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From: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] semaphores
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Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:47:11 -0700
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On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Scott Schwartz wrote:

> 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.

those are great if you have a long time to wait, I use them too. But
memory-based ones like Russ posted are also mighty handy!

ron