locking
The use of a lock or a mutex to restrict access to a part of the code to at most one process.
Related words
- antilocking
- autolocking
- letterlocking
- lockingly
- multilocking
- nonlocking
- pseudolocking
- central door locking
- mutual tidal locking
- central locking
- double-checked locking
- locking differential
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