Critical section




A non-re-entrant piece of code that can only be executed by one process at a time.

It will usually terminate in bounded time and a process will only have to wait a bounded time to enter it.

Some synchronisation mechanism is required at the entry and exit of the critical section to ensure exclusive use.





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