Re: [Foxgui-users] Lyle's OS X 10.5 fix

[Niall D. <s_s...@ne...>]

On 20 Jun 2008 at 9:25, Mr. Grue wrote:

>     i think this all boils down to an executive Jeroen decision.  :)
> 
>     no existing version of OS X supports unnamed POSIX semaphores.  FOX's
> use of POSIX semaphores are all unnamed.
> 
>     as i see it, you've got three of choices:

You could just drop semaphores. They're pretty useless for most 
coding situations except as a primitive for bigger things - and there 
an atomic integer is far more useful. TnFOX doesn't provide them at 
all nor uses them - much the same as why Apple never bothered 
implementing them fully.

TnFOX has also been running on Mac OS X for well over a year now and 
has no dependencies on Carbon nor anything outside Mach. One could 
examine the TnFOX source and copy it rather than reinventing the 
wheel ...

Cheers,
Niall