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It's a good example but I think it's not exactly that. Maybe it was a GUID generation code that would generate the same one for every instance?

> I know it has something to do with some mythical thing called a mutex, rarely can I find someone that bothers to stop and explain what one of these are.

Oh my

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In this particular example, this is not an ignorant bad question. It's a self-QA by an experienced developer.