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Semaphore

Term · Computing and IT · MLC-T-CMP-001540

A synchronization primitive used in concurrent programming to control access to a common resource by multiple processes or threads. It maintains a count, and processes can acquire or release the semaphore, decrementing or incrementing the count respectively. A process attempting to acquire a semaphore with a count of zero will block until another process releases it.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CMP-001540
FieldComputing and IT
SubjectSoftware
Record as JSON 
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  "definition": "A synchronization primitive used in concurrent programming to control access to a common resource by multiple processes or threads. It maintains a count, and processes can acquire or release the semaphore, decrementing or incrementing the count respectively. A process attempting to acquire a semaphore with a count of zero will block until another process releases it.",
  "subject": "Software",
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/computing/semaphore/"
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Record 1,195 of 1,553 in Computing and IT terminology (MLC-0101). Request the full dataset.