[fpc-pascal] semaphores?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Jonas Maebe wrote:

> 
> On 14 Apr 2009, at 13:42, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
> >Use GetThreadManager() to retrieve the thread manager, and then
> >simply use the various functions.
> 
> No, the thread manager is only for internal use by the RTL, and may lack
> implementations for functions not required by the RTL for a particular
> platform. See http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=11206

That was definitely not the original intention of the thread manager.

The idea was to have low-level thread related functions available without
classes, including semaphores.

Michael.