Semaphore and Spinlock

Abhishek Bist ishubist at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 09:18:45 EDT 2015


[ Semaphores are a bit like spinlocks, except the holder of a semaphore is a process, not a CPU. ]
This is a very first line that is bein written on the description of semaphore on kernel newbies.So what are the different parameter 
that could justify this statement or the way it could be justified and understood.



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