[Mono-list] kerne32 CreateSemaphore

[Alan McGovern]

Why are you P/Invoking to gain access to something that is already provided?

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.semaphore.aspx

Alan.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Maser, Dan <Dan.Maser at inin.com> wrote:

>
>  You can't p/invoke to windows DLLs when you're running on linux.  I doubt
> you'll get around making a conditionally compiled section for each OS,
> unless you can do everything you need with on managed calls.  You can choose
> "where" to put the OS-specific abstraction stuff, but not "if".
>
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>
> On Linux, I am getting an EntryPointNotFoundException trying to call the
> CreateSemaphore function that is part of kernel32.dll. (On Windows,
> naturally all works fine)
>
>
> Does anyone know of a way around this on Linux without a tremendous amount
> of re-writing a bunch of my code.
>
> Thank you
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