[LAD] ANN: convoLV2 0.2

[Stéphane Letz]

Le 22 oct. 2012 à 14:50, Fons Adriaensen a écrit :

> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 02:31:35PM +0200, Stéphane Letz wrote:
> 
>> You can use semas on OSX, you'll need to use sem_open API instead of sem_init.
>> Using here: sem_open, sem_post/sem_wait, sem_unlink/sem_close with success
>> (In Faust Work Stealing Scheduler code). And semas are actually a slight
>> wrapper over Mach semas. You can check that in XNU source (here for
>> instance http://opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1068/)
> 
> Except that the implementation is incomplete. And worse, some functions
> such as sem_init() do exist but don't work.

I know that, so use sem_open.

> Earlier versions of zita-
> convolver also required sem_getvalue() which doesn't exist or doesn't
> work, I don't remember.
> 
> Having to do all of: destroy a sema, create a new one in the filesystem
> (which requires unique names), open then unlink the new one, just to
> reset its counter to zero is too much a hack for it to be acceptable.
> 
> Ciao,

Well... your choice.

Stéphane