Explore the critical section in OS, its challenges, solutions, and strategies for avoiding synchronization issues in concurrent programming. The critical section is a code segment where the shared variables can be accessed. An atomic action is required in a critical section i.e. only one process can execute in its critical section at a time. All the other processes have to wait to execute in their critical sections. A diagram that demonstrates the critical section is as follows − In the above diagram, the entry section handles the entry into the critical section. It acquires the resources needed for execution by the process ... Learn about critical sections in programming, including their management, the critical section problem, and solutions like locks and test-and-set instructions. A critical section denotes a segment of code in a process where the process changes the value or state of any shared resource. The shared resources refer to shared memory variables, common tables, shared files, shared devices, or any other system resource.
