While dealing with mutexes, the biggest problem that can arise is a deadlock. To understand what deadlock is, just imagine an iPod. For an iPod to achieve its purpose, it requires both an iPod as well as an earpiece. If two siblings share one iPod, there are situations where both want to listen to music at the same time. Imagine one person got their hands on the iPod and the other got the earpiece, and neither of them is willing to share the item they possess. Now they are stuck, unless one of them tries to be nice and lets the other person listen to music.
Here, the siblings are arguing over an iPod and an earpiece, but coming back to our situation, threads argue over the locks on mutexes. Here, each thread has one mutex ...
