A construct combining mutual exclusion for operations on shared state with condition-based waiting. A waiting caller releases the monitor while asleep and must recheck its predicate after regaining access.
A wait returning without the application predicate necessarily becoming true. Rechecking that predicate in a loop also handles the separate possibility that another caller consumed the resource before the awakened caller could acquire the monitor.

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