critical section

English

Noun

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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Esperanto: krita sekcio
Finnish: kriittinen alue
French: section critique (fr) f
Romanian: secțiune critică f
Spanish: sección crítica f

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