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A semaphore count of negative n means (S=-n) that the queue contains…….waiting process

  1. n+1
  2. n
  3. n-1
  4. 0

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Semaphore count of negative n means that the queue contains n waiting processes

and nonnegative count means that the queue of waiting processes is empty .

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