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mutexing

mutexing is the present participle and gerund 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 mutexing

What is mutexing the present participle and gerund of?
Mutexing is the present participle and gerund of mutex.

Words near mutexing in the dictionary

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

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