What are wait handles ? Or What is a mutex object ? Dot Net Interview Questions

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Wait handles sends signals of a thread status from one thread to other thread.There are three kind of wait modes :-

1.WaitOne.

2.WaitAny.

3. WaitAll.

When a thread wants to release a Wait handle it can call Set method.You can use Mutex (mutually exclusive) objects to avail for the following modes.Mutex objects are synchronization objects that can only be owned by a single thread at a time.Threads request ownership of the mutex object when they require exclusive access to a resource.

Because only one thread can own a mutex object at any time, other threads must wait for ownership of a mutex object before using the resource.

The WaitOne method causes a calling thread to wait for ownership of a mutex object. If a thread terminates normally while owning a mutex object, the state of the mutex object is set to signaled and the next waiting thread gets ownership