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Noun Concept
Categories: Concurrency control, Software design patterns
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lock  Advisory lock  atomic lock  fine-grained locking  lock contention
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In computer science, a lock or mutex is a synchronization primitive: a mechanism that enforces limits on access to a resource when there are many threads of execution. Wikipedia
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computer
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software engineering
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In computer science, a lock or mutex is a synchronization primitive: a mechanism that enforces limits on access to a resource when there are many threads of execution. Wikipedia
A bookkeeping object used to serialize concurrent access Wikipedia Disambiguation
A mutex or other token restricting access to a resource. Wiktionary
A mutex or other token. Wiktionary (translation)
IS A
concurrency pattern
HAS KIND
global interpreter lock
file locking
Index locking
Giant lock
locks with ordered sharing
+6 relations
FACET OF
mutex
STUDIED BY
parallel computing
USE
mutex
Wikipedia
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lock (computer science)
Wikidata
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lock
Wiktionary
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lock
Wikipedia Redirections
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Advisory lock, atomic lock, fine-grained locking, Lock (computer), lock contention, Lock pattern, Lock variable, locking (computer science), Mandatory lock, mutex
Wikidata Alias
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mutex

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