Making a non exclusive semaphore (like on Unix)

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From: Christophe Wolfhugel
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 1991 15:14

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Is there any mechanisme similar to Unixes' semaphores, ie I'd like to get
a semaphore with units: 
  - one thread increments it (so never blocking)
  - another thread uses units and gets blocked only when the counter is 0.
(it's for managing a packet layer window in a comm package).

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