School is slipping. I had to punt this weekend on my essay so I lose 10%, because I had tons of work to finish. I finished my programming assignment and sent it off with exactly 59 seconds to spare. And it has a little cleanup bug (which I diagnosed in about 45 seconds because I had no choice); for some reason the parent process was cleaning up the IPC semaphore before the child processes were done with it...I guess I could have checked to see if anything was using it first, but I don't know how the parent was getting there, since it was supposed to be wait()ing for all of the children. Odd.
Anyway, school is slipping, family is slipping. I feel like if I spend more than about 15 minutes doing just one thing instead of 2 or 3 at a time, I'm falling behind. Which truthfully, I probably am.
Oh well, come May hopefully things will get at least a tiny bit better. If it does't, then I'm going to forcibly adjust my work life balance to put it where I want it; this is not a sustainanble pace. Certainly no one has demanded it of me, I have no one to blame but myself. :-)
while it is easy for me to say since i have no school or family responsibilities, i think this is a worthwhile, career-making opportunity. i _can_ say that i have the same risk-reward question in my mind. for now, i'm pretty confident that this is the type of project that can change things... for our customers, for the group we work in, and for our careers. i guess we'll just see about that.
Serious question: Why on earth are you dicking around with semaphores?! Biggest. Pain. Ever. Solved problem. It's been years since I used them, but a project where we had to port an app from one compiler to another was almost killed because of stupid semaphores. OK, so I'm a tad bitter, but still, WHY?!
Oh, and by the way, if you need some help with the inner workings of semaphores on various OSs, take a look at this:
http://www.anbg.gov.au/flags/semaphore.html
It's the best resource on semaphore compatibility I've read.
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