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Semaphores
Describe how a Semaphore is used in Operating System?


  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: March 08, 2009     Asked by: tereraiterence 
  
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Semaphores provide mutual exclusion. They are used for process sync and are used to resolve deadlock conditions. They are used in pairs basically wait() and signal().
Commonly used semaphore is mutex()

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RE: Semaphores
Semaphores provide mutual exclusion. They are used for process sync and are used to resolve deadlock conditions.
They are used in pairs basically wait() and signal().
Commonly used semaphore is mutex()

 
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