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mutex en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈmjuːtɛks/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Syllabic abbreviation of mutually exclusive or mutual exclusion.

Meanings

1. 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:

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Deriveds

futex

Translations (6)

fi mutex (object in a program) · fr exclusion mutuelle (object in a program) · de wechselseitiger Ausschluss (object in a program) · fr mutex (object in a program) · fi muteksi (object in a program) · de Mutex (object in a program)

mutex en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (UK) audio
• /ˈmjuːtɛks/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

Syllabic abbreviation of mutually exclusive or mutual exclusion.

Meanings

1. (transitive) 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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