Critical Sections

Question 1

What is a Race Condition?

Answer 1

A race condition is a event where the outcome of two concurrently running processes
depends on the order in which their operations are interleaved, sometimes
leading to incorrect outcomes.

Question 2

What is a Critical Section

Answer 2

A critical section is code that accesses some shared resource and that needs to be
run as if indivisibly to not allow another process to access the resource.
The code inside a critical section, if not protected, leads to race conditions.