Mutex
Mutex
package java-vm
Available on javaConstructor
new ()
Creates a mutex, which can be used to acquire a temporary lock to access some resource. The main difference with a lock is that a mutex must always be released by the owner thread
Methods
acquire ():Void
The current thread acquire the mutex or wait if not available. The same thread can acquire several times the same mutex, but must release it as many times it has been acquired.
release ():Void
Release a mutex that has been acquired by the current thread. If the current thread does not own the mutex, an exception will be thrown
tryAcquire ():Bool
Try to acquire the mutex, returns true if acquire or false if it's already locked by another thread.
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