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The counting semaphore concept can be extended with the ability to claim or return more than one "unit" from the semaphore, a technique implemented in Unix. The modified V and P operations are as follows, using square brackets to indicate atomic operations , i.e., operations that appear indivisible to other processes:
The original semaphore bounded buffer solution was written in ALGOL style. The buffer can store N portions or elements. The "number of queueing portions" semaphore counts the filled locations in the buffer, the "number of empty positions" semaphore counts the empty locations in the buffer and the semaphore "buffer manipulation" works as mutex for the buffer put and get operations.
Concurrent components communicate by altering the contents of shared memory locations (exemplified by Java and C#). This style of concurrent programming usually needs the use of some form of locking (e.g., mutexes, semaphores, or monitors) to coordinate between threads.
To enter a critical section, a thread must obtain a semaphore, which it releases on leaving the section. Other threads are prevented from entering the critical section at the same time as the original thread, but are free to gain control of the CPU and execute other code, including other critical sections that are protected by different semaphores.
While a binary semaphore may be colloquially referred to as a mutex, a true mutex has a more specific use-case and definition, in that only the task that locked the mutex is supposed to unlock it. This constraint aims to handle some potential problems of using semaphores:
Hoare demonstrated their equivalence to semaphores. Monitors (and Concurrent Pascal) were soon used to structure process synchronization in the Solo operating system. [10] [11] Programming languages that have supported monitors include: Ada since Ada 95 (as protected objects) C# (and other languages that use the .NET Framework) Concurrent Euclid
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After a super-thread is finished, the condition changes back to using the logic from the recursive lock, and the exiting super-thread sets itself as not being a super-thread; notifies the locker that other locked, waiting threads need to re-check this condition; If a deadlock scenario exists, set a new super-thread and follow that logic.