what is the diff b/w MUTEX and semaphore?

Answer Posted / urmi p

basically mutex is a type of semaphore that provides
priority inheritence if a task of lower priority takes the
mutex semaphore and a task of higher priority tries to take
the same semaphore.A simple semaphore does not perform this
task.

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