Computer Science - Operating Systems Concepts - Discussion

Discussion Forum : Operating Systems Concepts - Section 1 (Q.No. 3)
3.
To avoid the race condition, the number of processes that may be simultaneously inside their critical section is
8
1
16
0
None of the above
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Parsh said:   1 decade ago
Race condition bring in the idea of critical section. Critical section is a mutually exclusive section whereby more than 1 process reading or writing the shared data is prohibited. So to avoid Race Condition, the following 4 conditions are needed

Mumtaz gohar said:   1 decade ago
In fact we need four conditions to hold.

No two processes may be simultaneously inside their critical sections.
No assumptions may be made about the speed or the number of processors.
No process running outside its critical section may block other processes.
No process should have to wait forever to enter its critical section.


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