Thread: Good ole Semaphores.......

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    Good ole Semaphores.......

    I'm taking an Operating Systems class and stuck on a problem with Semaphores.
    Here it is:
    Suppose a machine's instruction set includes an instruction named swap that operates as follows (as an indivisible instruction):

    swap(boolean *a, boolean *b)
    {
    boolean t;
    t = *a;
    *a = *b;
    *b = t;
    }

    Show how swap can be used to implement the p and v operations.

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    >>the p and v operations.
    what?

    i think this is a c/c++ board post...smells like homework
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    And a horrible worded one at that. Do your own homework.

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