Clarify Mutex Object and its use

Question

Clarify Mutex Object and why it is employed?

Answer 1

A mutex object is a synchronization object whose state is set at signaled whereas it is not owned through any thread, & non-signaled while it is owned. For instance, to prevent two threads from writing to shared memory at the similar time, each thread waits for ownership of a mutex object before executing the code which accesses the memory. After writing to the shared memory, the thread releases the mutex object.