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C# in a Nutshell
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C# in a Nutshell

by Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, Peter Drayton
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
31h 8m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Mutex

Synopsis

A Mutex is an implementation of a WaitHandle. ReleaseMutex() releases a lock on a WaitHandle. A thread that owns a Mutex lock can call any of the Wait() methods (defined in the parent class, WaitHandle) without blocking, but must then release the Mutex the same number of times as the Mutex was obtained.

public sealed class Mutex : WaitHandle {
// Public Constructors
   public method Mutex();  
   public method Mutex(bool initiallyOwned);  
   public method Mutex(bool initiallyOwned, string name);  
   public method Mutex(bool initiallyOwned, string name, 
        out bool createdNew);  
// Public Instance Methods
   public method void ReleaseMutex();  
}

Hierarchy

System.ObjectSystem.MarshalByRefObjectWaitHandle(System.IDisposable)Mutex

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 0596001819Catalog PageErrata