Top "Mutex" questions

A mutex ("mutual exclusion") is a mechanism to ensure integrity when the same data or resource is accessed (in particular, changed) concurrently from several threads.

What's the difference between "mutex" and "lock"?

I am very confused about the difference between a lock and mutex. In Boost docs, it says, Lock Types Class …

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What does mutex and semaphore actually do?

I want some clarification regarding mutex and semaphore. My question is, What mutex actually do when a thread tries to …

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How to give priority to privileged thread in mutex locking?

First of all: I am completely a newbie in mutex/multithread programming, so sorry for any error in advance... I …

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mutex.lock vs unique_lock

When should I prefer the first piece of code to the second, and do they have fundamental differences std::mutex …

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Simple multithreading mutex example is incorrect

I expect to get numbers from 0 to 4 in random order, but instead, I have some unsynchronized mess What i do …

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How do mutexes really work?

The idea behind mutexes is to only allow one thread access to a section of memory at any one time. …

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Win32: How to get the process/thread that owns a mutex?

I'm working an application of which only one instance must exist at any given time. There are several possibilities to …

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C++11 Thread: Multiple threads waiting on a condition variable

I am currently working on a problem that simulates a extended Producer-Worker model. In this problem there are 3 workers and 3 …

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pthreads : pthread_cond_signal() from within critical section

I have the following piece of code in thread A, which blocks using pthread_cond_wait() pthread_mutex_lock(&…

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C++ Syncing threads in most elegant way

I am try to solve the following problem, I know there are multiple solutions but I'm looking for the most …

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