What is MUTEX ?

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What is MUTEX ?..

Answer / narsinha

mutex is an semaphore integer variable indicates process
number which is currently used resource.it indicates mutual
exclusion in which one job can use single non sharable
resource at a time to remove conflicts between more than
two simultaneous competing concurrent processes to get
access of single non sharable resource at a time.

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What is MUTEX ?..

Answer / sriram

mutex is a synchronization variable

it is used in critical section problems...

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What is MUTEX ?..

Answer / raveendra reddy

MUTEX is an integer variable used to represent the process
number which is going to be processed.here we can use the
MUTEX variable to ensure the mutual exclusion.

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What is MUTEX ?..

Answer / chandrashaker

mutex is a binary semaphore used in the problem of critical section

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