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  2. Mutual exclusion - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, 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 a critical section while a concurrent thread of execution is already accessing said critical section, which refers to an interval of time ...

  3. Maekawa's algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Maekawa's algorithm is an algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. The basis of this algorithm is a quorum -like approach where any one site needs only to seek permissions from a subset of other sites.

  4. Dekker's algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Dekker's algorithm is the first known correct solution to the mutual exclusion problem in concurrent programming where processes only communicate via shared memory. The solution is attributed to Dutch mathematician Th. J. Dekker by Edsger W. Dijkstra in an unpublished paper on sequential process descriptions [1] and his manuscript on cooperating sequential processes. [2]

  5. Peterson's algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Peterson's algorithm (or Peterson's solution) is a concurrent programming algorithm for mutual exclusion that allows two or more processes to share a single-use resource without conflict, using only shared memory for communication. It was formulated by Gary L. Peterson in 1981. [1]

  6. Lock (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple threads of execution at once. Locks enforce mutual exclusion concurrency control policies, and with a variety of possible methods there exist multiple unique implementations for different ...

  7. Lamport's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Lamport's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm is a contention-based algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. Algorithm. Nodal properties

  8. Thread safety - Wikipedia

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    This approach is characteristic of functional programming and is also used by the string implementations in Java, C#, and Python. (See Immutable object.) The second class of approaches are synchronization-related, and are used in situations where shared state cannot be avoided: Mutual exclusion

  9. Raymond's algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Raymond's Algorithm is a lock based algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. It imposes a logical structure (a K-ary tree ) on distributed resources. As defined, each node has only a single parent, to which all requests to attain the token are made.