Mutexes (`MUTEX`)

The ChorusOS operating system provides sleep locks in the form of mutual exclusion locks, or mutexes. When using mutexes, threads sleep instead of spinning when contention occurs.

Mutexes are data structures allocated in the client actors' address spaces. No microkernel data structure is allocated for these objects, they are simply designated by the addresses of the structures. The number of these types of objects that threads can use is thus unlimited. Blocked threads are queued and awakened in a simple FIFO order.

`MUTEX` API

The MUTEX API is summarized in the following table:

Function	Description
`mutexGet()`	Acquire a mutex
`mutexInit()`	Initialize a mutex
`mutexRel()`	Release a mutex
`mutexTry()`	Try to acquire a mutex

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Mutexes (MUTEX)

MUTEX API

Mutexes (`MUTEX`)

`MUTEX` API