The mutexes, also known as binary semaphores (we choose to not use this terminology to avoid confusion with counting semaphores), are the mechanism intended as general solution for Mutual Exclusion.

• 互斥锁，也被称为二元信号量（我们不使用这个术语来避免与计数信号量混淆），是用来解决互斥问题的专用机制。