Re: Use semaphore for producer/consumer case...

[Manfred Spraul]

>      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.

--
    Manfred

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