Re: [PHP-DEV] Optional nowait argument to sem_acquire

Hi,

On 02/09/2014 15:38, [email protected] wrote:
> I'd propose instead of accepting "nowait" only, I'd use a better support
> and accept "until", dealing with possible cases:
> 
>   * -1: Blocks and wait until lock is acquired
>   * 0: Exactly what your patch does, attempt to grab and if it fails,
>     just return false (I'd remove the E_WARNING)

(It doesn't. The warning is raised when the semaphore can't be acquired
for other reasons)

>   * > 0: Acceptable time in milliseconds it would wait until consider
>     the acquire failed

TBH, I don't know. semtimedop is not universally available (no BSD, as
far as I can tell) and I would prefer to avoid writing an alternative
implementation in case it's not available. On the other hand triggering
an error in such case wouldn't be nice.


Cheers
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Matteo Beccati

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