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    Question Multiple down/up with QSemaphore

    Some time ago, I did a software that made use of multiple (or simultaneous) UP or DOWN operations on semaphores. At that time, Qt don't had a QSemaphore class yet, so I had to do it with the OS API.

    The application was dedicated to Linux, and i had no problem to do that with the semop function. I just had to pass a sembuf structure array to the function and, specify the operations (UP or DOWN) for each semaphore. The OS API assured me that the operation had to be done simultaneously, so I don't had any disturbance. If all operations couldn't be done simultaneously, the thread was blocked.

    Now, facing the same problem, on a multiplataform approach (windows, linux ...), I'm thinking to use a QSemaphore class, but I don't see how can I do it, because this class have no "multiple_acquire_release" method.

    P.S.: A VERY important note... I can't do the operations (down's and up's) sequentially, I have to do it simultaneously.

    Can someone help me with that?

    Regards,

    Diogo.
    Last edited by diogolr; 5th April 2011 at 17:45. Reason: Changing the title

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    Default Re: Multiple down/up with QSemaphore

    You mean you want to lower multiple semaphores at once? You'd have to serialize access to the semaphores by protecting them with a mutex and a wait condition. This way you can safely check values of all the semaphores and lower them sequentially without any other threads interfering.

    Qt Code:
    1. forever {
    2. mutex.lock();
    3. if(s1.available() < 3 || s2.available() < 2 || ...)
    4. waitCondition.wait(&mutex);
    5. else {
    6. s1.acquire(3); s2.acquire(2); ...
    7. break;
    8. }
    9. mutex.unlock();
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    and then when releasing semaphores:
    Qt Code:
    1. mutex.lock();
    2. s1.release(2);
    3. waitCondition.wakeAll();
    4. mutex.unlock();
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    Actually I'm not sure semaphroes are needed here at all, seems like simple ints would do.
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    Default Re: Multiple down/up with QSemaphore

    I have already thought to "serialize" through a mutex, but what I want is really something like the semop operation on Linux API... Multiples DOWN/UP simultaneously

    Clarifying my problem... What I need is a way to acquire multiple and independent resources each guarded by unique semaphores

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    Default Re: Multiple down/up with QSemaphore

    I understand but Qt doesn't support such a concept in a cross-platform way.
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