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 # Critical sections (OpenMP)
-In POSIX threads, mutual exclusion is explicit: you call `pthread_mutex_lock` before a shared update and `pthread_mutex_unlock` after. **Critical sections** in OpenMP do the same thing with a pragma. The enclosed block is protected by an implicit mutex: only one thread at a time executes it, and threads that arrive while another is inside are blocked until it exits. Unlike [[atomic-openmp|`atomic`]], which is limited to a single read-modify-write operation, `critical` can protect an arbitrary sequence of statements.
+In POSIX threads, mutual exclusion is explicit: you call `pthread_mutex_lock` before a shared update and `pthread_mutex_unlock` after.
+**Critical sections** in OpenMP do the same thing with a pragma. The enclosed block is protected by an implicit mutex: only one thread at a time executes it, and threads that arrive while another is inside are blocked until it exits. Unlike [[atomic-openmp|`atomic`]], which is limited to a single read-modify-write operation, `critical` can protect an arbitrary sequence of statements.
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