semaphore in A Sentence

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    (A mutex is really a Semaphore with value 1.).

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    Semaphores are used for" Signaling Mechanisms" like"I am done, now can continue".

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    A Mutex can be implemented using a Semaphore but not the other way around.

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    Thus, despite its early success, the Semaphore traffic system was immediately dropped in England.

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    If the Semaphore is released too many times it's a sign of a bug.

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    Semaphores are incremented and decremented and used to block tasks until something else is ready.

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    Semaphores are often used to guard resources with limited capacity, for example, a database server.

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    Currently, Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, and BoundedSemaphore objects may be used as with statement context managers.

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    No one owns Semaphores, whereas Mutex are owned and the owner is held responsible for them.

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    Officially:“A Semaphore restricts the number of simultaneous users of a shared resource up to a maximum number.

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    Whereas Semaphore can be used across process space and hence it can be used for interprocess synchronization.

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    The album cover shows the Beatles with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag Semaphore.

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    A Semaphore manages an internal counter which is decremented by each acquire() call and incremented by each release() call.

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    Whereas in case of Semaphore if same process tries to acquire it again it blocks as it can be acquired only once.

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    What this means is that a program with Semaphore usage has a higher memory footprint when compared to a program having Mutex.

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    However, if you call a wait function twice on a binary Semaphore without releasing the Semaphore in between, the thread will block.

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    The threading module objects Lock, RLock, Condition, Semaphore, and BoundedSemaphore, all have context managers, meaning they can be used with the with statement.

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    In 2006, Adobe Systems commissioned an art installation titled San Jose Semaphore by Ben Rubin, which is located at the top of its headquarters building.

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    In turn, the server process writes data back to the shared memory area, using the Semaphore to indicate that data is ready to be read.

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    In 2006, Adobe Systems in commissioned an art installation titled San Jose Semaphore by Ben Rubin, which is located at the top of its headquarters building.

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    As such one can see a mutex as a token passed from task to tasks and a Semaphore as traffic red-light(it signals someone that it can proceed).

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    When another process increments the Semaphore by performing a V operation, and there are processes on the queue, one of them is removed from the queue and resumes execution.

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    Mutex can be released only by thread that had acquired it, while you can signal Semaphore from any other thread(or process), so Semaphores are more suitable for some synchronization problems like producer-consumer.

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    A railway manager and engineer named John Peake Knight, who specialized in designing signaling systems for the British railway, approached the Metropolitan Police with the idea of using a Semaphore/lighted system for road traffic.

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    As any code can potentially damage the data of another task(except in larger systems using an MMU) programs must be carefully designed and tested, and access to shared data must be controlled by some synchronization strategy, such as message queues, Semaphores or a non-blocking synchronization scheme.

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    As graphical user interfaces developed, the file model proved inadequate to the task of handling asynchronous events such as those generated by a mouse, and in the 1980s non-blocking I/O and the set of inter-process communication mechanisms was augmented(sockets, shared memory, message queues, Semaphores), and functionalities such as network protocols were moved out of the kernel.

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