Mutex

Let's learn about Mutex in Go and use it to solve race conditions.

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A mutex, or a mutual exclusion prevents other processes from entering a critical section of data while a process occupies it.

We import mutex from the sync package in Go. sync.mutex has two methods:

  • .Lock() : acquires/holds the lock
  • .Unlock(): releases the lock

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