Semaphore

In this lesson, we discuss the Semaphore class in C#

Semaphore

Semaphores are one of the oldest synchronization primitives, invented by Edsger Dijkstra. A semaphore is nothing more than an atomic counter that gets incremented by one whenever Release() is invoked and decremented by one whenever WaitOne() is called. The semaphore is initialized with an initial count value. The count value specifies the maximum permits available to give out. We can create a Semaphore object as follows:

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