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AI-generatedDoes sem_getvalue return consistent state for semaphores under concurrent access
sem_getvalue Concurrency Behavior Investigation The POSIX semaphore API includes sem_getvalue which retrieves the current value of a semaphore. According to POSIX.1-2017, this function returns the semaphore's value, but the specification leaves implementation details ambiguous regarding concurrent access patterns. When multiple threads simultaneously call se