Counting Semaphores:


Counting semaphores are used when a resource is to be allocated from a pool of identical resources. The semaphores initialized the number of resources in the pool. When a resource is allocated and p operation is executed, it decrement semaphores by 1.


When v operation is executed, it increments semaphores by 1. It indicates that the resource has been released and is available for another process. If p operation is called when the semaphore has been decremented to zero, the process has to wait until a resource is released by V operation

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