What is mutex?

Answer Posted / chinavenkanna babu

Mutual exclusion (often abbreviated to mutex) algorithms
are used in concurrent programming to avoid the
simultaneous use of a common resource, such as a global
variable, by pieces of computer code called critical
sections

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