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What is mutual exclusion? Explain Petersons algorithm for mutual exclusion.
written 7.8 years ago by gravatar for devikaraniroy devikaraniroy • 640 modified 3.9 years ago by gravatar for pedsangini276 pedsangini276 • 4.8k

Subject: Operating System

Topic: PROCESS COORDINATION

Difficulty: Medium
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written 7.7 years ago by gravatar for devikaraniroy devikaraniroy • 640 modified 7.6 years ago by gravatar for sanketshingote sanketshingote • 100

A mutual exclusion (mutex) is a program object that prevents simultaneous access to a shared resource. This concept is used in concurrent programming with a critical section, a piece of code in which processes or threads access a shared resource.

Only one thread owns the mutex at a time, thus …

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