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Control.Concurrent.QSemN Portability non-portable (concurrency) Stability experimental Maintainer libraries@haskell.org

Description

Quantity semaphores in which each thread may wait for an arbitrary "amount".

Synopsis

data QSemN newQSemN :: Int -> IO QSemN waitQSemN :: QSemN -> Int -> IO () signalQSemN :: QSemN -> Int -> IO ()

General Quantity Semaphores

data QSemN

A QSemN is a quantity semaphore, in which the available "quantity" may be signalled or waited for in arbitrary amounts.

newQSemN :: Int -> IO QSemN

Build a new QSemN with a supplied initial quantity.

waitQSemN :: QSemN -> Int -> IO ()

Wait for the specified quantity to become available

signalQSemN :: QSemN -> Int -> IO ()

Signal that a given quantity is now available from the QSemN.

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