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From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: Blocking protected ops (was: Tasks and C/C++ code)
Date: 1998/11/28
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>: If you are going to have multiple semaphores, you will want to
>: create a protected semaphore type, so you can declare different
>: semaphores for different resources.

>Hmmm, I would say that this really is a OS dependend problem. On
>Win32 I would follow the Claw approach, on Unix I would use a task,
>on OS/2 I would use a mutex, on ....
  For gethostbyname in specific, or in general for multiple resources?
If the latter, why?