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From: "Manfred Spraul" <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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Subject: Re: Use semaphore for producer/consumer case...
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 19:34:07 +0100
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>      consumer()

>             /* Let's wait for 10 items */
>             atomic_set(&sem->count, -10);

That doesn't work, at least the i386 semaphore implementation doesn't
support semaphore counts < 0.

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    Manfred

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