Posted by Ratvin on 10/14/05 11:51

I am not very clear about the 1st idea. The 2nd idea can be looked
into.

At the same time i would like to know whether message queues would help
in synchronization?

Any suggestions!!!

Thanks,

Ratheesh K J

Marek Simon wrote:

> 1st idea. try to aquire semaphore and remove it only if aquire was
> succesfull.
> 2nd idea. prevent creating new semaphores and reuse the old.
> Marek
>
> Ratvin napsal(a):
> > sem_remove will cause trouble if there are other processes blocking on
> > the semaphore. This has already been tried.
> >
> > Is there any way to remove a semaphore only if there are no processes
> > waiting on it?
> >
> > I mean to say that if there are processes blocking on the sem then
> > release the semaphore after use otherwise remove it.
> >
> > I m in search of the best possible strategy to do this....
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ratheesh K J
> >

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