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A software approach to mutual exclusion is Lamport’s bakery algorithm [LAMP74], so called because it is based on the practice in bakeries and other shops in which every customer receives a numbered ticket on arrival, allowing each to be served in turn. The algorithm is as follows:


The arrays choosing and number are initialized to false and 0 respectively. The ith element of each array may be read and written by process i but only read by other processes. The notation (a, b)
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a. Describe the algorithm in words.
b. Show that this algorithm avoids deadlock.
c. Show that it enforces mutual exclusion
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