CPU Sharing question.
23-Aug-90 13:27:35
Sb: #117596-CPU Sharing question.
Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321
To: Christopher R. Hertel 76424,213
Chris,
Ok…if memory serves me right, there's only 8 user bits in a
semaphore available….but if you used 5 of those bits for process
identification and the other 3 bits (if 8 is correct) for the nature of the
request, that'd allow you to have 32 processes and 8 types of
requests/replies for communication.
I could be way off on the number of bits available….it's been a
while since I looked at semaphores.
Don