What is mutex?

Mutex is short form of mutual exclusion. It is very much silimar to semaphore and the names are used interchangably in different opperating systems. The semaphore which are task attached i.e. the task which had acquired the sempahore will only be allowed to release it, are generally termed as Mutex.

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