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NAME
       Thread::Semaphore - thread-safe semaphores

SYNOPSIS
           use Thread::Semaphore;
           my $s = new Thread::Semaphore;
           $s->down;   # Also known as the semaphore P operation.
           # The guarded section is here
           $s->up;     # Also known as the semaphore V operation.

           # The default semaphore value is 1.
           my $s = new Thread::Semaphore($initial_value);
           $s->down($down_value);
           $s->up($up_value);

DESCRIPTION
       Semaphores provide a mechanism to regulate access to resources. Semaphores, unlike
       locks, aren’t tied to particular scalars, and so may be used to control access to
       anything you care to use them for.

       Semaphores don’t limit their values to zero or one, so they can be used to control
       access to some resource that there may be more than one of. (For example, filehan-
       dles.) Increment and decrement amounts aren’t fixed at one either, so threads can
       reserve or return multiple resources at once.

FUNCTIONS AND METHODS
       new
       new NUMBER
               "new" creates a new semaphore, and initializes its count to the passed num-
               ber. If no number is passed, the semaphore’s count is set to one.

       down
       down NUMBER
               The "down" method decreases the semaphore’s count by the specified number,
               or by one if no number has been specified. If the semaphore’s count would
               drop below zero, this method will block until such time that the
               semaphore’s count is equal to or larger than the amount you’re "down"ing
               the semaphore’s count by.

               This is the semaphore "P operation" (the name derives from the Dutch word
               "pak", which means "capture" -- the semaphore operations were named by the
               late Dijkstra, who was Dutch).

       up
       up NUMBER
               The "up" method increases the semaphore’s count by the number specified, or
               by one if no number has been specified. This will unblock any thread
               blocked trying to "down" the semaphore if the "up" raises the semaphore
               count above the amount that the "down"s are trying to decrement it by.

               This is the semaphore "V operation" (the name derives from the Dutch word
               "vrij", which means "release").



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