[Asterisk-Dev] MUTEX definition

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Angel Diaz wrote:

>     Does somebody can explain/tell me what is the word MUTEX referred to in
> the * source code ?

It's a common abbreviation of "mutual exclusion", meaning that it's an 
object used to synchronize access to a shared resource. They are used in 
Asterisk to protect lists of entries and various other things, so that 
two threads won't try to modify the list at the same time.