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A thin wrapper around the Win32 semaphore object.

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The page describes Semaphore as "a thin wrapper around the Win32 semaphore object. " But what happens if we are running .NET Core or .NET 7 app on a Linux/Unix machine? Does it not work OR does it map to some equivalent Unix concept?

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* ID: 51e078fd-3a63-8b58-49f8-67e49df9bc9f
* Version Independent ID: f082f7b2-e1a3-aa31-1081-5ca11c954d80
* Content: [Semaphore and SemaphoreSlim](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/threading/semaphore-and-semaphoreslim)
* Content Source: [docs/standard/threading/semaphore-and-semaphoreslim.md](https://github.com/dotnet/docs/blob/main/docs/standard/threading/semaphore-and-semaphoreslim.md)
* Product: **dotnet-fundamentals**
* GitHub Login: @BillWagner
* Microsoft Alias: **wiwagn**

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