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		tavianator on April 26, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You could have invented futexes > User space mutexes were in QNX over two decades ago Futexes were in Linux over two decades ago: https://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2002/ols2002-pages-479-495.pd... :) And before that I believe glibc did something similar to what I described in the post, using signals

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