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What is the deference between a semaphore and a mutex

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Sigiloso

4 de out. de 2011

A mutex is a special case of a semaphore with a value of 1.

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Sigiloso

1 de jun. de 2014

Semaphore is a protected variable in a parallel program which restricts shared access while in a concurrent program, semaphore is an algorithm that avoids sharing of same memory resource by multiple programs.

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