Assertion: semaphore | /r/HasAspect | count
Facets:
value: in his proposal
type: OTHER
value: prior to
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: A semaphore is a synchronised data structure (typically using a mutex) that has a count and some system call wrappers that interact with the scheduler in a bit more depth than the mutex libraries would.
text: A semaphore is a synchronised data structure (typically using a mutex) that has a count and some system call wrappers that interact with the scheduler in a bit more depth than the mutex libraries would.
text: It sounds like you want to know when the semaphore has all counts available.
text: You can use the return value from Release to infer what the count is, but that causes the semaphore to change its state and, of course, it will still throw an exception if the semaphore already had all counts available prior to making the call.
text: In his proposal the semaphore can have an initial value (or count) greater than one.