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The Critical section problem occurs when the processors are in a Network. For eg consider that 3 processors share same database at a time, if one processor wants to update the database then no other process will get the access to that database. This point is called as critical section. Temporarily the connection between the other 2 system will be dropped.

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in an operating system, there may be a segment of code, which will be shared by many processes.but when two processes shares the code and if one updates the code while other reading it,there occurs a conflict.this is called critical section problem

To avoid this problem a lock is created on that block of code which establishes that no new process can access that block until the first process release it after it's usage.

Thus there would be no chance conflict b/w processes while reading that block simultaneously

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