1. mutex - Noun
2. mutex - Verb
mutex (plural mutexes)
(programming) An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads.
mutex (third-person singular simple present mutexes, present participle mutexing, simple past and past participle mutexed)
(programming, transitive) To apply a mutex to.
And that variable must be made thread-local (or else a big mutex must be used) so the scheme doesn't break under threads: dynamic scope implementations can take care of this also. Source: Internet
In addition to the atom created by the second stage injector to check if the system is already infected, the main payload also creates a mutex with a name based on the same procedure to create the name for the atom (see Appendix). Source: Internet
On uniprocessor systems, a thread running into a locked mutex must sleep and hence trigger a context switch. Source: Internet
C variant used the same mutex as CMSTAR. Source: Internet
In theory (and as far as I know, which isn't very far) atomic be thread safe so shouldn't need a mutex around it. Source: Internet
The only runtime analysis commonality across the above four samples is the mutex string “Wapp” and the file type destined for Windows machines. Source: Internet