[fpc-devel] Re: [lazarus] Why TSemaphore not implemented for Win32?

[willem]

Hello,

i do fully agree with you.

Implementing Semaphores is very important.
So i hope someone will implement this.

regards

Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schreef:
> On 10/30/07, 12 12 <xxxiter at rambler.ru> wrote:
>   
>> Why  TSemaphore not implemented for Win32?
>>     
>
> AFAIK TSemaphore is just an alias to different semaphore names on
> different unixes.
>
> So it would never work on Win32 by definition.
>
>   
>> but CreateSemaphore present in Delphi!
>>     
>
> No it's not. It's a Windows API. It's not directly connected to Delphi.
>
> Nevertheless, I for one, am interrested in having a cross-platform
> semaphores solution. I find them quite useful, specially after having
> the theory at the university.
>
> What do others think about how such functionality could be implemented?
>
> We could write a procedural interface with some functions like
> CreateSemaphore, OpenSemaphore, CloseSemaphore, etc. Also the 2
> classical operations P and V (I don't remember the descriptive names
> for them)
>
> And TSemaphore could be the handle passed by such functions, or a new
> type could be created to avoid confusion.
>
> Ah, by the way, I am moving this discussion to fpc-devel, since it's
> more appropriate here.
>
> thanks,
>