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Questions related to software that manages computer hardware resources, and more specifically microcontroller or microprocessor operating Systems
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Why can't we have counting mutexes?
Because what you've described as a "counting mutex" is a semaphore.
A semaphore has a common resource with a limited number of identical copies; think of a library with 5 copies of a book. Users can …
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