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07-14-2010, 04:10 AM
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The tech guys have cleared out what they refer to as "stale semaphores". I've never heard of the term and a quick search hasn't proven very informative so I can't elaborate.

However, they mentioned that if the errors still occurred to contact them again for further troubleshooting, so please keep posting the error messages in here if you receive any more.

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Semaphores are a concept in real time programming wherein multiple threads share common resources. Semaphores are flags that represent that a particular resource has been reserved and is being used. I presume that a stale semaphore is one that was reserved but never released, thus limiting access to resources later on.
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