[LCP]Help in Parallel tasks
Mohd Saifullah
saif at lantana.tenet.res.in
Sat Nov 23 00:54:01 UTC 2002
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Andrew Weaver wrote:
> Well, it seems that what you are looking for is for the child to know that
> the parent has issued its ping. So, have the parent set the semaphore just
> ahead of its "system" call and have the child test the semaphore (not block
> on it). Make sure that the parent pings for long enough to enable the child
> to do two snmpgets.
>
Thanks a lot for your idea, it is working.
Thanks again,
Saif
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