On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 07:34:07PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > 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.
Does that mean that kernel semaphore can not be used for something
else than mutual exclusion ?
Stelian.
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