Semaphores

[Steven Spencer]

Hi, I'm doing an IT degree at university, and my lecturer's do not teach
m$ technologies. I was wondering if anyone could point me to the
implementation of mutex's and semaphores in .net? Or the microsoft
equivalent of them.

 

[Bruce Wood]

Try reading Jon Skeet's article on multithreading in .NET:

http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/threads/

 

[Guest]

Steven,
If you want to see the actual code for the implementation of Mutex,
Semaphore, etc. , download yourself a copy of Lutz Roeder's free Reflector
product, Load MsCorlib, and use the built - in disassembler to see the actual
code in your favorite language.
Peter

 

[Lebesgue]

I'm afraid this will not work for him, since they are implemented in .NET
framework by calling WinAPI.
And Semaphore class is in System.dll, not in mscorlib.

 

[Guest]

Yes, Semaphore is in System.Dll, and Mutex is in MsCorLib. And even though
WinAPI calls are used, you can still decompile to C# for example and examine
quite easily how everything is implemented, including any DLLImport
signatures.
Peter

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[William Stacey [MVP]]

Here is one I did before 2.0 was out:
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/DijkstraCountingSemaphore.asp#xx1205311xx

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| Hi, I'm doing an IT degree at university, and my lecturer's do not teach
| m$ technologies. I was wondering if anyone could point me to the
| implementation of mutex's and semaphores in .net? Or the microsoft
| equivalent of them.