Practice - Semaphores (Counting and Binary)
Practice Questions
Test your understanding with targeted questions
Define a semaphore in one sentence.
💡 Hint: Think about how processes need to communicate.
What are the two operations associated with semaphores?
💡 Hint: Recall the operations we discussed in class.
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Interactive Quizzes
Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning
What does the wait() operation do in semaphore management?
💡 Hint: Think of wait as needing to access a resource.
True or False: A binary semaphore can take on any integer value.
💡 Hint: Recall the definitions we discussed.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple system to manage three printers using a counting semaphore. Describe the semaphore initialization and how the producer and consumer would interact with it.
💡 Hint: Think about how threads will interact with the printers.
Explain what can go wrong if we use shared variables instead of semaphores for synchronization in a banking application.
💡 Hint: Consider the implications of concurrent transactions.
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