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Old 05-21-2011
what's the difference between signal and semaphore?

dear all~
I am just new here.I am very happy to see such a forum.

I am very puzzled by the difference between signal and semaphore.

What's the difference between signal() wait() and P V operation?

the linux kernel have implemented a good semaphore system,why we need the system V IPC semaphore?
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Old 05-21-2011
Hi,

In my understanding for a counting semaphore (which allow an arbitrary resource count), V is = signal() and P = wait().
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Old 05-21-2011
thank you~
I find some answers that the Signal is a technical which is equal to soft interruption.
And a signal can only tell a process what happened,but it can't send data buffers to other process.

Are all these understanding right?

But I just see the signal used to tell the process itself what happened not another process.
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Old 05-21-2011
Right, no data buffers for signal, it's used to tell something coded by a number to a running process.

You can send a running process a signal, it's for example the work done by the kill command.
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