System N history correction
BALDWIN
mike at whuxl.UUCP
Sat Dec 15 17:14:45 AEST 1984
> Michael, I couldn't pass this up. Semaphores? I wouldn't call them that.
> What was implemented is a STACK, not a QUEUE. Can people imagine how useful
> this really is? Just think, the sooner a process wants something the later
> it gets it!
Sigh! I ran the test program, and sure enough, only two of the processes
ever got the semaphore! Oh well. I've submitted a trouble report on it,
so at least it has a chance of being fixed in the near(?) future.
But hey, lots more bugs have been fixed in System V than have been
introduced in 4.2BSD !!
Michael Baldwin
AT&T Bell Labs
harpo!whuxl!mike
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