Owning Palette: Semaphore VIs
Requires: Base Development System
Returns current status information of a semaphore.
Use this VI in conjunction with the other Semaphore VIs to implement a semaphore in LabVIEW.
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semaphore is a reference to a semaphore. |
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error in describes error conditions that occur before this node runs. This input provides standard error in functionality. |
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name contains the name of the semaphore. |
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semaphore out has the same value as semaphore. |
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# available contains the number of tasks that can acquire the semaphore at the current time. This number is always less than or equal to size. |
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# waiting is the number of Acquire Semaphore functions currently waiting to acquire the semaphore. |
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error out contains error information. This output provides standard error out functionality. |
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size contains the maximum number of tasks that can acquire the semaphore at a time. |