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.
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