mutex-controlled
|mu-tex-con-trolled|
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/ˈmjuːtɛks kənˈtroʊld/
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/ˈmjuːtɛks kənˈtrəʊld/
protected by a mutex
Etymology
'mutex-controlled' originates from English, specifically the compound of 'mutex' (a contraction of 'mutual exclusion') and 'controlled' (from 'control'), where 'mutex' meant 'mutual exclusion' and 'controlled' meant 'being governed or regulated.'
'mutex' is a 20th-century computing contraction of 'mutual exclusion' used to name synchronization primitives; 'control' comes from Old French/Latin roots (from words meaning to rule or check). These elements combined in technical writing to form the compound adjective 'mutex-controlled'.
Initially, 'mutex' named the concept of 'mutual exclusion' in concurrent computing; combined as 'mutex-controlled' it evolved to specifically mean 'protected or serialized by a mutex' in modern programming usage.
Meanings by Part of Speech
Adjective 1
protected or governed by a mutex (mutual-exclusion lock); access to the resource is serialized using a mutex to prevent concurrent conflicts in multithreaded or concurrent programming.
The shared buffer is mutex-controlled to prevent race conditions when multiple threads write to it.
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