Mutual Exclusion – ME

Question 6. What are the potential problems of using locks for mutual exclusion?

Answer:

Problems with using locks include deadlock (where processes wait indefinitely for a lock), livelock (where processes keep changing state without making progress), and starvation (where a process never gains access to the resource because others are continuously locking it).

Resources:

TutorialsPoint Article: Lock Variable Mechanism

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