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Thu 28 Mar 2013

Binary Sempahore

Implemented binary semaphore in Minix 3. Minix 3 is a micro-kernel operating system.

Most of the process pass information among themselves using application IPC. This often result in race condition. To prevent it and provide synchronization, semaphores, first proposed by Dikstras, is used...

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