Answer to: What is a kernel?

[Jonathan R. Lusky]

>  Of course, waiting on a locked semaphore is also expensive, but that
>  doesn't really count.
 
Actually, that was what I was talking about.

>  What I don't understand is where the names for 'p' and 'v' came from....

Ugh, I used to know exactly...  basically the person who invented 'p' and 'v'
was not a native enlish speaker, those are the first letters of the
words for "wait" and "signal" in the language where he lived.


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