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Smile Semaphores & Mutex

Hi All,

I wanted to know the exact the difference in implemenation of semaphores and mutexes.
As Mutex has some protection mechanism , but semaphore doesn't..
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I'm not understanding you I guess. Semaphores are locking primitives. You can implement mutual exclusion (mutexes) using binary semaphores.
Wikipedia is a good place to start conceptually.
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