futex
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futex
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Etymology
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Contraction
of
fast
userspace
mutex
; see
mutex
.
Noun
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futex
(
plural
futexes
)
(
computing
)
A mechanism for
basic
locking
, based on an
atomic
integer
in
userspace
that may be operated upon from multiple
processes
or
threads
.
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