text: NAME
  futex - Fast Userspace Locking
  SYNOPSIS
  #include <linux/futex.h>
  DESCRIPTION.-contention, futexes are also optimized for this situation. In its bare form, a futex is an aligned integer which is only touched by atomic assembler instructions. Processes can share this integer using mmap(2), via shared memory onwards..
  SEE ALSO
  futex(2) Fuss, Futexes and Furwocks: Fast Userlevel Locking in Linux (proceedings of the Ottawa Linux Symposium 2002), futex example library, futex-*.tar.bz2 <URL:>.
  COLOPHON
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