What is the difference between mutex and semaphore?
Answer Posted / rabia
well its true that mutex is a binary semaphore having value
1 or 0
but mutex also define that when a producer is producing
something consumer is not allowed to consume at that
time.........
where as semaphore is the locking mechanism which have non
negative integers
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