critical section

English

Noun

critical section (plural critical sections)

1. (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.

Translations

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