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Subject: epicsEvent semantics
From: Eric Norum <[email protected]>
To: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS core-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:10:16 -0700
The final patch, I hope:

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 <h2 align="center">Changes between 3.14.11 and 3.14.12</h2>
 <!-- Insert new items immediately below here ... -->
 
+<h4>epicsEvent</h4>
+
+<p>epicsEvents are now explicitly required to act as simple binary semaphores.
+A single epicsEventSignal call must awaken just one thread when multiple
+threads are waiting for an event.  A test thats checks for this has been 
+dded to epicsEventTest and the application developers guide has been updated
+to describe this requirement.</p>
+
 <h4>Added windows-x64 target</h4>
 
 <p>64-bit binaries for Microsoft Windows platforms can now be built using the

-- 
Eric Norum
[email protected]






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Re: epicsEvent semantics Ralph Lange
Re: epicsEvent semantics J. Lewis Muir

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