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How does the Priority Inheritance Protocol protect against medium-priority threads?

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🛡️ When a high-priority thread blocks on a lock held by a low-priority thread, the low-priority thread's priority is raised to match the high-priority thread. This prevents medium-priority threads from preempting it and causing unbounded delay.