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Allow Only One Instance

Published on February 7th, 2008.

Sometimes you need your application to have no more than one instance. Here comes the Mutex Class.
When two or more threads need to access a shared resource at the same time, the system needs a synchronization mechanism to ensure that only one thread at a time uses the resource. Mutex is a synchronization primitive that grants exclusive access to the shared resource to only one thread. If a thread acquires a mutex, the second thread that wants to acquire that mutex is suspended until the first thread releases the mutex. (more…)

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