Process Coordination / Synchronisation

[Mike Marmor]

Is there anything in Perl that implements something like event flags in VMS?

What I'd like to do is wait for a semaphore to become available, and to be able
to do this without spinning/checking.

Thanks in advance.

/Mike


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