The term _______ refers to a technique in which a process can do nothing until it gets permission to enter its critical section but continues to execute an instruction or set of instructions that tests the appropriate variable to gain entrance.

A) spin waiting
B) general semaphore
C) critical resource
D) message passing

A) spin waiting

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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