mutex
See also: Mutex
English
Etymology
Contraction of mutually exclusive.
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Noun
mutex (plural mutexes)
- (programming) An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads.
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object in a program
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Verb
mutex (third-person singular simple present mutex, present participle es, simple past and past participle mutexed)
- (programming, transitive) To apply a mutex to.
- 2002, "Steve Connet", Re: best way to interrupt a select() call in a (POSIX) thread? (on newsgroup comp.programming.threads)
- 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? (on newsgroup comp.programming.threads)
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