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The document discusses principles of concurrency in operating systems including mutual exclusion and synchronization. It covers several techniques for managing shared resources and concurrent access including hardware support using interrupt disabling or compare-and-swap instructions. Semaphores and monitors are presented as synchronization mechanisms that use atomic primitives like wait, signal, and broadcast to control access to critical sections. Message passing is also introduced as an alternative to sh

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Dhruv

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EN