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I have a question regarding using Semaphores
HANDLE WINAPI CreateSemaphore(...);
Is there anyway I can get the current value of the semaphore?
No, and that’s intentional. Even if you could get the “current” value, that value might very well have changed before you could do anything with it. The only way to do anything with it is to get and set the value atomically — e.g., wait for the semaphore to be free and set it to “owned” (by that piece of code) in the same operation.