critical section
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[edit]Noun
[edit]critical section (plural critical sections)
- (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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