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Subject: RE: [Haskell-cafe] How to use QSem?
From: "Simon Marlow" <simonmar () microsoft ! com>
Date: 2004-06-23 9:56:04
Message-ID: 3429668D0E777A499EE74A7952C382D10207B937 () EUR-MSG-01 ! europe ! corp ! microsoft ! com
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On 22 June 2004 21:44, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
> 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
If the maximum value of your QSem is 1, then an MVar will do. That is,
an MVar can be used as a simple semaphore, and a QSem is necessary if
you need a quantity semaphore (there are > 1 units of the resource).
> 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
import Control.Concurrent, create the semaphore like this:
m <- newMVar ()
and use it like this:
withMVar m $ \_ -> ... critical section ...
If you are using the semaphore to protect a mutable variable, then you
can handily merge the two ideas into an MVar, which behaves like a
thread-safe mutable variable.
Cheers,
Simon
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