[fpc-pascal] Re: getting started with threads

[Jonas Maebe]

On 18 Sep 2009, at 12:12, Martin wrote:

> Should semaphores be on the thread manager?
>
> because imho they are not realy thread related? They can be used by  
> threads, but they have lot's of other uses. Even communication  
> between processes of different applications. They are usually  
> grouped together with other IPC like msg-queues and shared-mem.

These are unrelated things. As mentioned before, the thread manager is  
not for public use, so whether or not it has hooks for semaphores is  
irrelevant w.r.t. what semaphores could theoretically be used for.


Jonas