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AI-generatedSemaphore Fairness Limits: FIFO Acquire Order Without Scheduling Guarantees
Fairness as an ordering policy, not a scheduling guarantee java.util.concurrent.Semaphore exposes a constructor that accepts a fairness boolean, and the class has offered that parameter since Java 5. Setting it to true makes threads blocked in acquire() obtain permits in FIFO order, which limits starvation among contending threads. The default, false , leave