What are the lowest locking primitives in linux. I know about futex_wait and futex_wake. But futexes can be used for signalling besides locking. What is the lowest locking primitive and where can I find it in the glibc library? Secondly, are the condition variables also based on futexes?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
What are the lowest locking primitives in Linux
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