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It is well-known that classical 2-process mutual exclusion algorithms, such as Dekker and Peterson\u2019s algorithms, are not fault-tolerant; in this paper we ask what degree of fault tolerance can be achieved using the same restricted resources as Dekker and Peterson\u2019s algorithms, namely, three binary read\/write registers.<\/p>\n<p>We show that if one memory fault can occur, it is not possible to guarantee both mutual exclusion and deadlock-freedom using three binary registers; this holds in general when fewer than 2f+1 binary registers are used and f may be faulty. Hence we focus on algorithms that guarantee (a) mutual exclusion and starvation-freedom in fault-free executions, and (b) only mutual exclusion in faulty executions. We show that using only three binary registers it is possible to design an 2-process mutual exclusion algorithm which tolerates a single memory fault in this manner. Further, by replacing one read\/write register with a test&set register, we can guarantee mutual exclusion in executions where one variable experiences unboundedly many faults.<\/p>\n<p>In the more general setting where up to f registers may be faulty, we show that it is not possible to guarantee mutual exclusion using 2f+1 binary read\/write registers if each faulty register can exhibit unboundedly many faults. On the positive side, we show that an n-variable single-fault tolerant algorithm satisfying certain conditions can be transformed into an ((n\u22121)f+1)-variable f-fault tolerant algorithm with the same progress guarantee as the original. 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