Mutex, or Mutual Exclusion, is a locking mechanism used in concurrent programming to prevent race conditions by ensuring only one goroutine can access a shared resource at a time. Golang's sync package provides Mutex and RWMutex for managing concurrent job execution. Mutex locks and unlocks critical sections where shared resources are accessed, maintaining data integrity and preventing resource starvation.

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