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  Re: signals / legOS internals
 
(...) Now keep in mind that this is coming from someone who won't take Duke's OS class until next spring- is there any reason the current semaphore implementation couldn't be used for a large percentage of these tasks? I.E., thread A checks (or uses (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
 
  Re: signals / legOS internals
 
(...) They could. In fact, there may be cases where that is exactly what you want to do. However, that requires you to write your code to examine the semaphore at every point where you would want to consider processing the event. It is more work. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)

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