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Semaphores
- Analogy: bathroom key at a gas station! Only one key, thus only one person allowed at a time in bathroom. Many may wait for the key :)
Using semaphores instead of Message Queues to solve IPC patterns
- Two process mutex with semaphores (page 311).
- Two process rendezvous with semaphores (page 312).
- 1 Buffer Producer/Consumer with semaphores (page 312-313).