Thanks, this adds a whole new perspective for me wrt mutexes. I wasn't aware of all these other usage patterns for them at all. Most of my work is in the OS, d

Thanks, this adds a whole new perspective for me wrt mutexes. I wasn't aware of all these other usage patterns for them at all. Most of my work is in the OS, drivers and low level space, and I'm a beginner there as well, hence the short critical sections under a single owner are the only places I had encountered them before.