August 21, 2019 , , , , ,

  • One way to avoid race conditions is not to allow two processes to be in their critical sections at the same time. 
  • Critical section is the part of the process that accesses a shared variable. 
  • That is, we need a mechanism of mutual exclusion. Mutual exclusion is the way of ensuring that one process, while using the shared variable, does not allow another process to access that variable.