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Andrew Johnson <[email protected]> · Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:29:34 -0500

On Thursday 28 October 2010 16:44:24 Eric Norum wrote:
> Well, the vxWorks and RTEMS implementations of epicsEvent use simple binary
> semaphores.  The POSIX implementation also looks like it will also provide
> the semantics of a simple binary semaphore.   The WIN32 version I have no
> idea about. Assuming that the WIN32 does provide the desired semantics

The actual behaviour is something we don't seem to and probably should check 
in libCom/test/epicsEventTest.cpp â contributions to 3.15 welcomed...

> maybe we should update the documentation to state that this is how
> epicsEvents are to work.

Agreed, now easy to do thanks to James Rowland:

bzr branch lp:epics-appdev
cd epics-appdev
vi tex/libComOsi.tex
make
...

- Andrew
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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