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mutex

noun, verb — 2 senses

mutex

noun

UK /ˈmjuːtɛks/

Etymology Syllabic abbreviation of mutually exclusive or mutual exclusion.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads.

  • The ability to set a maximum waiting time provides another reason why in some circumstances, you might prefer to use a mutex rather than a lock statement.2004, Mark Schmidt, Simon Robinson, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Sams Publishing, →ISBN, page 632:
Derived terms
futex

mutex

verb

Etymology Syllabic abbreviation of mutually exclusive or mutual exclusion.

1

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences To apply a mutex to.

  • Or you can have a single pipe that is mutexed so each thread can only write to the pipe exclusively. Alternatively, you can have each thread put the finished fd in a globally mutexed list.2002, Steve Connet, “Re: best way to interrupt a select() call in a (POSIX) thread?”, in comp.programming.threads (Usenet):

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