What are the different types of semaphores?

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Dijkstra proposed a significant technique for managing concurrent processes for complex mutual exclusion problems. He introduced a new synchronization tool called Semaphore.

Semaphores are of two types −

Binary semaphore
Counting semaphore

Binary Semaphore

Binary semaphore is a semaphore with the integer value ranges over 0 and 1 whereas the …

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