Critical sections and mutexes

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, David Brady wrote:

> Firstoff, Shouldn't the plural of "mutex" be
> "mutices"?  :-)

No, because "mutex" isn't a word; it's an acronym for "mutual exclusion". As
such it probably shouldn't have a plural form at all, but who's counting ;)

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