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I noticed MacOSX SDL sets up working directory to parent of executable. On BeOS is should setup it the same way, but it only does when Tracker wasn't restarted. I checked code and it looks like a hack to me :( It looks for env variable and than comapres it to default when OpenTracker was started after boot, and wasn't restarted. That's probably ok, for that exact case. Unfortunetly that variable isn't always like that. For example, after Tracker crashes and is restarted, env variable most probably is different (depends on how Tracker was restarted, by what application, etc... for example: i have launcher application from which i can restart Tracker, and after that nev variable points to that application's directory, not Tracker's).
author Sam Lantinga <slouken@libsdl.org>
date Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:58:40 +0000
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>SDL_SemTryWait</H1
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>SDL_SemTryWait&nbsp;--&nbsp;Attempt to lock a semaphore but don't suspend the thread.</DIV
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>#include "SDL.h"
#include "SDL_thread.h"</PRE
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>int <B
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>SDL_SemTryWait</B
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>(SDL_sem *sem);</CODE
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> is a non-blocking varient of
<A
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CLASS="FUNCTION"
>SDL_SemWait</TT
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>. If the value of the semaphore
pointed to by <TT
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><I
>sem</I
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> is positive it will atomically
decrement the semaphore value and return 0, otherwise it will return
<SPAN
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>SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT</SPAN
> instead of suspending the thread.</P
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>After <TT
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>SDL_SemTryWait</TT
> is successful, the semaphore
can be released and its count atomically incremented by a successful call to
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>Returns <SPAN
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> if the semaphore was successfully locked or
either <SPAN
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>SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT</SPAN
> or <SPAN
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if the thread would have suspended or there was an error, respectivly.</P
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>res = SDL_SemTryWait(my_sem);

if (res == SDL_MUTEX_TIMEDOUT) {
        return TRY_AGAIN;
}
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...

SDL_SemPost(my_sem);</PRE
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>SDL_SemWait</TT
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>SDL_SemWaitTimeout</TT
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>SDL_SemPost</TT
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