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Lock (computer science)
In
computer science
, a
lock
or
mutex
(from
mutual exclusion
) is a
synchronization
mechanism for enforcing limits on access to a resource in an environment where there are many
threads of execution
. A lock is designed to enforce a
mutual exclusion
concurrency control
policy.
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