semaphore System Class

Summary

A class of objects for synchronizing access to a shared resource that contains some number of available units.

Package

mp

Superclasses

t

Description

Instances of the system class semaphore are used for synchronizing access to a shared resource that contains some number of available units. They are made by make-semaphore and are used semaphore-acquire and semaphore-release.

See also

make-semaphore
semaphore-acquire
semaphore-release
19.7.3 Counting semaphores