Marcus Högberg wrote:
>
> This might be a stupid question, but anyway, here goes.....
> What (if any) is the difference between Mutex and Semaphores?
> I'm interested because I'm writing a paper on RTLinux as an examreport
>
Classically semaphore can have a value (other than 1 or 0), mutexes are
either on or off. Usually access to a semaphore is protected by an
(internal) mutex.
Regards, Stuart
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