Re: [Gomp-discuss] Decision about semaphores ..

[Pop Sébastian]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 11:08:25AM +0100, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> Would you mind explaining to the not-a-computer-scientist here what a
> semaphore is? :-)
> 

>From "info libc" section "POSIX Semaphores":

   Semaphores are counters for resources shared between threads. The
basic operations on semaphores are: increment the counter atomically,
and wait until the counter is non-null and decrement it atomically.