How to Implement Semaphores

Let's see how we can make a semaphore out of a lock and a condition variable.

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Finally, let’s use our low-level synchronization primitives, locks, and condition variables, to build our own version of semaphores called … (drum roll here) … Zemaphores. This task is fairly straightforward, as you can see in the code snippet below.

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