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Consider the following pseudocode, where S is a semaphore initialized to 5 in line#2 and counter is a shared variable initialized to 0 in line #1. Assume that the increment operation in line#7 is not atomic. 

1. int counter = 0; 
2. Semaphore S = init(5); 
3. void parop(void) 
4. { 
5.     wait(S); 
6.     wait(S); 
7.     counter++; 
8.     signal(S); 
9.     signal(S); 
10. } 

If five threads execute the function parop concurrently, which of the following program behavior(s) is/are possible?
 

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