On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 9:01 PM Marvin Stenger <[email protected]>
wrote:

> What: Code path protected by a mutex
> Does what: does not execute concurrently

> Surely it can execute concurrently, and even in parallel if your machine
has more than one core.

Then we are using the same word for different meanings, hence the
confusion. By a mutex I mean this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_exclusion and in this meaning there's
no concurrent execution of the code path protected by a mutex.

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-j

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