> Semaphore can always be stimulated by using mutex + cond_var. and > the only place that semaphore is a must is in signle-handler, but > this is not within the area of threading programming. ;-)
right, semaphores can be emulated by other primitives. But does that mean they *have to* be implemented that way ? I thought the point of not including semaphores in boost::threads was that they were error-prone or 'broken' in some other way, so I wanted to understand why.
Actually, I'v already seen threading libraries where the windows version implemented condition variables in terms of mutexes and semaphores, not the other way around...
Regards,
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