[Haskell-cafe] How to use QSem?

22 Jun 2004

      The GHC documentation on QSem is very sparse.  I
would like to give a thread exclusive access to a
resource.

My *guess* based on the documentation is that I
can create an exclusive lock using:

   logSem <- newQSem 1

And then any thread that wants to lock the
resource uses:

   withLogSem x = do waitQSem logSem; y <- x; signalQSem logSem; return y

as follows:

   withLogSem $ rotate curLogPos

Am I misunderstanding QSem?

-Alex-

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