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Understanding Operating System concepts
- A stack is a last-in, first-out (LIFO) data structure that plays a key role in operating systems.
- Heaps are used by OS memory managers for dynamic memory allocation.
- A thread is the smallest unit of execution that an OS scheduler manages.
- A mutex (short for mutual exclusion) is a synchronization mechanism that ensures only one thread accesses a shared resource at a time.
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