Busy waiting and Spinlock
Describe the term busy waiting and spinlock.
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Whenever the process is in its critical section, any other process that tries to enter in its critical section should loop continuously within the entry code. This is known as the busy waiting and such type of the semaphore is also known as a spinlock, since the process while waiting for the lock.
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