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Would it ever make sense to declare a semaphore with an initially negative count? Why or why not?
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It maintains a count that represents the number of available resources. When a thread wants to access the resource, it must acquire the semaphore. If the count is positive, the thread can proceed and the count is decremented. If the count is zero or negative, the Show more…
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