What causes "Too many posts were made to a semaphore"?

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From: Peter Steele (psteele_at_ciena.com)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 07:23:24 -0800

We have an application that is failing with the error

Error no. 298, Too many posts were made to a semaphore.

on a call to WaitForSingleObject(). This is happening on a Windows 2000
system. What might be causing this failure?

Peter Steele
Ciena Corp.

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