semaphore-compat: Cross-platform abstraction for system semaphores

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This package provides a cross-platform implementation of system semaphores that abstracts over the unix and Win32 libraries.


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Versions [RSS] 1.0.0
Change log changelog.md
Dependencies base (>=4.11 && <4.21), exceptions (>=0.7 && <0.11), unix (>=2.8.1.0 && <2.9), Win32 (>=2.13.4.0 && <2.15) [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Author The GHC team
Maintainer ghc-devs@haskell.org
Revised Revision 3 made by sheaf at 2024-06-02T16:53:09Z
Category System
Home page https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/semaphore-compat
Bug tracker https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/issues/new
Source repo head: git clone https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/semaphore-compat.git
Uploaded by sheaf at 2023-03-13T14:58:19Z
Distributions NixOS:1.0.0
Reverse Dependencies 4 direct, 14827 indirect [details]
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semaphore-compat

semaphore-compat provides a cross-platform implementation of system semaphores that abstracts over the unix and Win32 libraries.

It supports:

  • Creating (createSemaphore, freshSemaphore), opening (openSemaphore) and closing (destroySemaphore) semaphores.
  • Waiting on a semaphore:
    • without blocking with tryWaitOnSemaphore,
    • blocking forever, with waitOnSemaphore,
    • blocking, in a separate thread and allowing interruption, with forkWaitOnSemaphoreInterruptible and interruptWaitOnSemaphore.
  • Releasing tokens to a semaphore (releaseSemaphore).
  • Querying the semaphore for its current value (getSemaphoreValue).