Things UNIX can do atomically — Crowley Code!Things UNIX can do atomically 2010/01/06 This is a catalog of things UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems can do atomically, making them useful as building blocks for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or read/write locks. The list is by no means exhaustive and I expect it to be updated frequently for the foreseeable future. The philosophy here is to let the kernel
