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  1. CreateMutex - aldeid

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    The first process uses the CreateMutex function to create the mutex object. Note that this function succeeds even if there is an existing object with the same name. HANDLE hMutex; hMutex = CreateMutex( NULL, // default security descriptor FALSE, // mutex not owned
    You can use CreateMutex instead of std::mutex, but the code will not be portable from Windows to Unix. One is system independent and portable, the other is not. And it's not unlikely that std::mutex is a wrapper using the native Windows mutex primitives under the hood.
    This prevents a thread from deadlocking itself while waiting for a mutex that it already owns. To release its ownership under such circumstances, the thread must call ReleaseMutex once for each time that the mutex satisfied the conditions of a wait function.
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