[haiku-gsoc] Re: [HCD]: Bfs bug #1
- From: "Rene Gollent" <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-gsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:15:02 -0500
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Yep, the "sem" debugger command shows which thread has acquired the semaphore
> last with what count. It also shows who released it last. The acquired count
> is negated, if the thread already released the semaphore afterwards. I.e.
> according to your screenshot, the thread has last acquired the semaphore (and
> not released it since) and now tries to acquire it again. Judging from the
> sources this could be OK though, since the thread is kind of a consumer
> thread.
>
I must have overlooked that....so it's basically using a semaphore as
a substitute for a condition variable?
Regards,
Rene
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