critical section

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critical section (plural critical sections)

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  1. (programming) A piece of code that accesses a shared resource that must not be concurrently accessed by more than one thread of execution.
    • 2011, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Shaz Qadeer, Computer Aided Verification: 23rd International Conference:
      The instructions between a lock and an unlock form a critical section.

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