Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:2) The only thread constructs we are going to count on are: *) Abstract, non-recursive, simple locks *) Rendezvous points (Things threads go to sleep on until another thread pings the condition) *) Semaphores (in the "I do a V and P operation, with a count")
All d'accord with above but: I'm not sure yet, but /me thinks that we need to have a CLEANUP_PUSH and _POP handler functionality too. But these are basically macros (simple in the absence of pthread_kill or such) and currently already used :)
I wasn't listing anything we can build ourselves -- arguably we only need two of the three thigns I listed, since with semaphores you can do the rendezvous things (POSIX condition variables, but I'm sure windows has something similar) and vice versa.
> 3) I'm still not paying much attention.
May I ask why? -- Yes :) Why?
Got a killer deadline at work. Things ease up after the 9th if I make it, but then I owe someone else at home a few days of time. :)
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