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Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Difference in Semaphore, mutex and lock
A
lock
allows only one thread to enter the part that's locked and the lock is not shared with any other processes.
A
mutex
is the same as a lock but it can be system wide.
A
semaphore
does the same as a mutex but allows x number of threads to enter.
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