In computer science, a lock or mutex (from mutual exclusion) is a synchronization primitive that prevents state from being modified or accessed by multiple...

computer science, the reentrant mutex (recursive mutex, recursive lock) is a particular type of mutual exclusion (mutex) device that may be locked multiple...

Dining philosophers problem Exclusive or Mutually exclusive events Reentrant mutex Semaphore Spinlock load-link/store-conditional Dijkstra, E. W. (1965). "Solution...

state std::mutex critical_region_mtx; // mutual exclusion for critical regions for // (picking up and putting down the forks) std::mutex output_mtx;...

colloquially referred to as a mutex, a true mutex has a more specific use-case and definition, in that only the task that locked the mutex is supposed to unlock...

0; static pthread_mutex_t mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER; // only allow one thread to increment at a time pthread_mutex_lock(&mutex); ++counter; // store...

std::string& message) { // |mutex| is to protect access to |file| (which is shared across threads). static std::mutex mutex; // Lock |mutex| before accessing |file|...

A (non-recursive) mutex is either locked or unlocked. When a task has locked the mutex, all other tasks must wait for the mutex to be unlocked by its...

and other .NET languages std::shared_mutex read/write lock in C++17 boost::shared_mutex and boost::upgrade_mutex locks in Boost C++ Libraries SRWLock...

regaining exclusive access and resuming their task. A monitor consists of a mutex (lock) and at least one condition variable. A condition variable is explicitly...