Acronyms that contain the term mutual exclusion 

Mutual exclusion

In computer science, mutual exclusion refers to the requirement of ensuring that no two concurrent processes are in their critical section at the same time; it is a basic requirement in concurrency control, to prevent race conditions. Here, a critical section refers to a period when the process accesses a shared resource, such as shared memory. The requirement of mutual exclusion was first identified and solved by Edsger W. Dijkstra in his seminal 1965 paper titled Solution of a problem in concurrent programming control, and is credited as the first topic in the study of concurrent algorithms. A simple example of why mutual exclusion is important in practice can be visualized using a singly linked list. In such a linked list, the removal of a node is done by changing the “next” pointer of the preceding node to point to the subsequent node.

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