code, resources or data in such a way that only one process has access to shared object at a time.

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• A situation where several processes access and manipulate the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which access takes place is called:
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• A semaphore is a shared integer variable                     .
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• The easiest way to create communicators with new groups is with                      .