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What is mutual exclusion? Explain its significance.
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Mutual exclusion is one of the conditions for a deadlock to occur.
It must be holding true for non-shareable resources .Non-sharable resources include printer, memory space etc.
Significance of mutual execution:
Prevents race around condition.
Prevents multiple threads to enter critical section at the same time.