What is Critical section?

Answer Posted / sandeep kumar gautam

The critical-section problem is to design a
protocol that the processes can cooperate. The protocol
must ensure that when one process is executing in its
critical section, no other process is allowed to execute in
its critical section.
sandeep gautam
rits cs 2012

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