[#BloombergLP-bslmt-Mutex-unlock]
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Release a lock on this mutex that was previously acquired through a call to `lock`, or a successful call to `tryLock`, enabling another thread to acquire a lock on this mutex. The behavior is undefined unless the calling thread currently owns the lock on this mutex.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_mutex.h>`

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void
unlock();
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