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@@ -101,38 +101,3 @@ Known bugs creation of production code is highly unreliable for the current version of
the pthreads library.
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-3. sem_getvalue sometimes returns lower value than expected
-
- The following comments from the code explain the problem:
-
- /*
- * There appears to be NO atomic means of determining the
- * value of the semaphore. Using only ReleaseSemaphore()
- * with either a zero or oversized count parameter has been
- * suggested but this trick doesn't produce consistent results
- * across Windows versions (the technique uses values that are
- * knowingly illegal but hopes to extract the current value
- * anyway - the zero parameter appears to work for Win9x but
- * neither work reliably for WinNT).
- *
- * The intrusive method below will give false results
- * at times but it at least errs on the side of
- * caution. Competing threads might occasionally believe
- * the semaphore has a count of one less than it actually
- * would have and possibly block momentarily unecessarily,
- * but they will never see a higher semaphore value than
- * there should be.
- *
- *
- * Multiple threads calling sem_getvalue() at the same time
- * may not all return the same value (assuming no calls to
- * other semaphore routines). They will always return the
- * correct value or a lesser value. This problem could be fixed
- * with a global or a per-semaphore critical section here.
- *
- * An equally approximate but IMO slightly riskier approach
- * would be to keep a separate per-semaphore counter and
- * decrement/increment it inside of sem_wait() and sem_post()
- * etc using the Interlocked* functions.
- */
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