Difference between binary semaphore and mutex - Stack Overflow
2008年9月15日 · The main difference between binary semaphore and mutex is that semaphore is a signaling mechanism and mutex is a locking mechanism, but binary semaphore seems to …
multithreading - What is a semaphore? - Stack Overflow
2008年8月29日 · A semaphore is a programming construct that helps us achieve concurrency, by implementing both synchronization and mutual exclusion. Semaphores are of two types, …
How to implement a Binary Semaphore Class in Java?
2016年5月11日 · A semaphore can be used in the same way that wait is used now, to restrict access to a block of code. Semaphores are more flexible and can also allow a number of …
Actual difference between Mutex and Binary semaphore
2019年12月11日 · Now that I understand what the theorical difference is, between Binary Semaphore and Mutex, I still wonder how to actually use them. I'm currently using C# and I …
What if we keep calling semGive multiple times without semTake …
2024年3月1日 · * The documentation for the C++ standard libary's binary semaphore pretty much guarantees that it will not behave the way your program expects a binary semaphore to …
Conditional Variable vs Semaphore - Stack Overflow
2010年8月18日 · When the semaphore count reaches 0 then no other threads are allowed to acquire the resource. The threads get blocked till other threads owning resource releases. In …
c - implementing general semaphores using binary semaphores
2016年12月16日 · A general semaphore can allow multiple processes to enter the critical section area but I cannot see how that is done in this code. It is not right, if you allow multiple …
Where to use binary semaphore when mutex are available?
2012年7月18日 · The canonical example for using a counted semaphore instead of a binary mutex is when you have a limited number of resources available that are a) interchangeable …
How to initialise a binary semaphore in C - Stack Overflow
2011年9月20日 · In the man page it appears that even if you initialise a semaphore to a value of one: sem_init(&mySem, 0, 1); It could still be incremented to a value greater than 1 with …
Implementing a binary semaphore class in C++ - Stack Overflow
2012年3月25日 · That may be so, but there is no need to mod down my answer because of that. Fact is, you do not have a binary semaphore here and I was correctly pointing that out. …