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Old 06-28-2012
Semaphore

Can anyone tell me abt the Semaphore concept and what is semaphore???
is semaphore id is associated in terms as in resources like semaphore id 1 indicates cpu share unit is given and semaphore id 2 will indicate abt the memore or semaphore id 3 will tell us the i/o components
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