What is MUTEX ?
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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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Answer / sriram
mutex is a synchronization variable
it is used in critical section problems...
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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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Answer / chandrashaker
mutex is a binary semaphore used in the problem of critical section
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