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What is a race condition and a critical section? How do you prevent them?

FresherFundamentalsOperating SystemsConcurrency

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A race condition occurs when multiple threads access shared data concurrently and the outcome depends on execution order. A critical section is the code region that accesses shared resources and must not be executed by more than one thread at a time.…