Discussion
A critical section in application code protects shared data by
Answer: A
Correct answer: preventing preemption for its duration
A critical section disables interrupts or the scheduler so that no other task or handler can touch the data while it is being changed. That is why it must be short: nothing else can run, so its length adds directly to the latency of everything in the system.
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