Explain mutual exclusion

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A mutual exclusion (mutex) is a program object that prevents simultaneous access to a shared resource. This concept is used in concurrent programming with a critical section, a piece of code in which processes or threads access a shared resource.

Only one thread owns the mutex at a time, thus …

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