Answer Posted / 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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