Agrawala and Ricart's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm __________.
A) assumes that communication between processes is reliable
B) assumes that processes do not fail
C) requires that a process first send a request message to all other processes in the system and receive a response from each of them before that process can enter its critical section
D) all of the above

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Agrawala and Ricart's algorithm assumes reliable communication and no process failures, and it requires a process to send a request to all other processes and receive responses before entering its critical section.

Agrawala and Ricart's Distributed Mutual Exclusion Algorithm __________