Lock (computer Science)
In computer science, a lock is a synchronization mechanism for enforcing limits on access to a resource in an environment where there are many threads of execution. A lock is designed to enforce a mutual exclusion concurrency control policy.
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—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)