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Quote: if a semaphore is zero, processes may be blocked, waiting for a P-operation; a V-operation wakes one of these processes, without starvation

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critical regions

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We therefore postulate that whenever a process initiates … to sleep until (another) process has performed a … zero, one or more processes may be blocked … , one of them is woken up … The choice of this latter process is such …   Google-1   Google-2

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