Question

Advantages of mutual exclusion in operating system

Answer 1

It controls access to the shared resource by controlling each mutual execution of that part of its program where the resource would be used. A successful solution to this problem must have at least these two properties: It must implement mutual exclusion: only one process can be in the critical section at a time.

Answer 2

Explanation:

mutual exclusion is a property of concurrency control, which is instituted for the purpose of preventing race conditions; it is the requirement that one thread of execution never enters its critical section at the same time that another concurrent thread of execution enters its own critical section.