I have been rereading Steve Adam's book a bit more carefully and have a
question. Just wondering if anyone has any answers.

When talking about latch sleeps, the book states "a process sleeping for a
latch waits on its semaphore". However, latches don't support queuing and a
number of processes may be waiting for the same latch. If I am sleeping and
the latch frees, who knows I need that semaphore? Are all waiting processes
posted with the semaphores going on/off/on/off? or is no semaphore posted
and the processes go sleep/wake/check/sleep/wake/check? I can't quite
picture the details here.

Henry



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