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philwelch
on March 3, 2011
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Edsger W.Dijkstra - How do we tell truths that mig...
You're talking about the inventor of the shortest-path algorithm and the semaphore.
microtherion
on March 6, 2011
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Obviously, mutual exclusion is widely used. I'm not so sure that semaphores as such are used as widely (and certainly not with functions named P() and V()).
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