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With help of neat diagram describe binary semaphore.
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written 6.9 years ago by gravatar for teamques10 teamques10 ★ 70k
  • A binary semaphore can only take two values 0 or 1.
  • Semaphore value 0 or 1 is used to indicate availability and unavailability respectively.
  • Consider task 1 and task 2 wanting to access a resource (say printer).
  • Semaphore is like a key when acquired count is 0. Task A acquires …

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