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mutexed

mutexed is the simple past and past participle of mutex.

Meaning of mutex

Verb

mutex (third-person singular simple present mutexes, present participle mutexing, simple past and past participle mutexed)

  1. (transitive) To apply a mutex to.
    • Or you can have a single pipe that is mutexed so each thread can only write to the pipe exclusively. Alternatively, you can have each thread put the finished fd in a globally mutexed list.2002, Steve Connet, “Re: best way to interrupt a select() call in a (POSIX) thread?”, in comp.programming.threads (Usenet)

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Questions about mutexed

What is mutexed the simple past and past participle of?
Mutexed is the simple past and past participle of mutex.

Words near mutexed in the dictionary

  1. mutest
  2. mutetrahedra
  3. mutetrahedron
  4. mutetrahedrons
  5. mutex
  6. mutexed
  7. mutexes
  8. mutexing
  9. Muth
  10. Muth-labben
  11. mutha

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