mutex
Speech parts
1. mutex - Noun
2. mutex - Verb
Meaning
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.
Examples
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.
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).
On uniprocessor systems, a thread running into a locked mutex must sleep and hence trigger a context switch.
C variant used the same mutex as CMSTAR.
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.
The only runtime analysis commonality across the above four samples is the mutex string “Wapp” and the file type destined for Windows machines.