Discussion
To avoid the race condition, the number of processes that may be simultaneously inside their critical section is
Answer: B
Correct answer: 1
A critical section is code that touches a shared resource, and a race condition arises exactly when two processes are inside one at the same time. Mutual exclusion therefore admits at most one process at a time - which is why the guarding semaphore is initialised to 1.
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