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Re: signals / legOS internals
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Date: 
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:40:20 GMT
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I misspoke when I said before that we have semaphores.  What I meant was mutexes.
We have had mutexes for quite awhile.  Certainly long before I started on this
signal thing.

I started this long enough ago that I don't remember what particular problem we were
trying to address.  To me, signal and semaphore mean very different things.

Ralph Hempel wrote:

Ummmmm, I don't want to speak for Markus, but most embedded kernels (and
I use a lot of them) use the term signal and semaphore interchangably.

I'm willing to bet a couple of bricks that the intent is to implement
semaphores to facilitate inter-task synchronization....



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  RE: signals / legOS internals
 
(...) Ummmmm, I don't want to speak for Markus, but most embedded kernels (and I use a lot of them) use the term signal and semaphore interchangably. I'm willing to bet a couple of bricks that the intent is to implement semaphores to facilitate (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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