Mutex vs Summit - What's the difference?
mutex | summit |
(computing, programming) An object in a program that serves as a lock, used to negotiate mutual exclusion among threads.
To apply a mutex to.
* 2002 , "Steve Connet", Re: best way to interrupt a select() call in a (POSIX) thread?'' (on newsgroup ''comp.programming.threads )
(countable) A peak; the top of a mountain.
(countable) A gathering or assembly of leaders.
(transitive, hiking, climbing, colloquial) To reach the summit of a mountain.
* 2012 , Kenza Moller, "Eyes on the North," Canadian Geographic , vol. 132, no. 4 (July/Aug.) p. 10:
As nouns the difference between mutex and summit
is that mutex is mutex while summit is (countable) a peak; the top of a mountain.As a verb summit is
(transitive|hiking|climbing|colloquial) to reach the summit of a mountain.mutex
English
Noun
(es) (wikipedia mutex)Verb
(en-verb)- Or you can have a single pipe that is mutexed' so each thread can only write to the pipe exclusively. Alternatively, you can have each thread put the finished fd in a globally ' mutexed list.
summit
English
Noun
(en noun)- In summer, it is possible to hike to the summit of Mt. Shasta.
- They met for an international summit on environmental issues.
Usage notes
Colloquially summit' is used for only the highest point of a mountain, while in mountaineering any point that is higher than surrounding points is a '''summit , such as the South Summit of (Mount Everest). These are distinguished by (topographic prominence) as ''subsummits'' (low prominence) or ''independent summits (high prominence).Synonyms
* acme, apex, peak, zenithDerived terms
* (l) * (l)Verb
- Of the range's 12 peaks, Mount Saskatchewan is the only one that has yet to be summited .