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Tha major disadvantages of using of a special machine instruction to enforce mutual exclusio is Select one:

a. that it cannot be used to support multiple critical sections
b. only applicable to fixed number of processes on a single processor system
c. difficult to verify
d. busy waiting

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The answer to the following question is the option "d".

Explanation:

In computer science, a machine instruction includes many bytes in memory that defines to processor to perform a machine operation. In machine instruction, the processor scans the main memory. It scans after another process and performs machine operation for each machine instruction. when a process constantly checks that if a condition is true. So this technique is known as busy waiting.

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