Networking stacks or anything where a maximum number of simultaneous users must be enforced.
Priority inheritance.
Mutex.
Priority inversion allows lower-priority tasks to take precedence over a higher-priority task. This is dangerous because it increases the chances of a high-priority task missing a deadline.
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