Catalog of Atomic Operations in UNIX/POSIX Systems for Thread-Safe Programming
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…
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