critical section

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noun Technical meaning of 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. 1
noun critical section (computing, programming) A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution. 0

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