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[Paul Ratcliffe]

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 13:14:47 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    Klunky?  How so?  Given the choice I'd much rather have a 
semaphore file
>than some esoteric interprocess signal.

Why? What do you gain? If you want to signal something, use a 
semaphore... a named event semaphore in this case. Why use a file to to 
this? Files are for storing data.

>I dunno, something about the fact
>that I work on large networks where the only common ground between two
>machines is the file system.  :)

Depends what sort of network and whether they are running dissimilar 
operating systems. As we were talking about 2 processes on 1 machine, 
using this technique is just... well klunky fits perfectly.