Define busy waiting and spinlock, Operating System

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Define busy waiting and spinlock.

When a process is in its significant section, any other process that tries to enter its critical section must loop continuously in the entry code. This is called as busy waiting and this type of semaphore is also called a spinlock, due to the process while waiting for the lock..

 


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