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Readers-writer lock
In computer science, a readers-writer lock (also known by the name multi-reader lock, or by typographical variants such as readers/writers lock) is a synchronization primitive that solves one of the readers-writers problems. A readers-writer lock is like a mutex, in that it controls access to some shared memory area, but it allows multiple threads to read from the shared area concurrently.
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