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What is Mutual Exclusion about?

Mutual exclusion is a critical property in real-time systems that ensures only one thread accesses a shared resource at a time, preventing race conditions and maintaining data consistency. Various techniques such as disabling interrupts, busy waiting, queuing, context switching, and compare-and-swap can be employed to achieve mutual exclusion, each with its own advantages and disadvantages. Failure to implement mutual exclusion can lead to race conditions, data corruption, and system instability.

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