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Operating System
Semaphores 2
Q
Spinlocks are intended to provide __________ only.
AA. Mutual exclusion
BB. Bounded waiting
CC. Aging
DD. Progress
Correct Answer:
B. B. Bounded waiting
Explanation:
A spinlock is a mutual exclusion mechanism that uses busy-waiting (looping) instead of sleeping, making it ideal for very short critical sections in multi-core systems.