Futex - WikipediaIn computing, a futex (short for "fast userspace mutex") is a kernel system call that programmers can use to implement basic locking, or as a building block for higher-level locking abstractions such as semaphores and POSIX mutexes or condition variables. A futex consists of a kernel-space wait queue that is attached to an atomic integer in userspace. Multiple processes or threads operate on the i
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