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English word origin

Etymology of futex

Contraction of fast + userspace + mutex; see mutex.

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noun

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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Contraction of fast + userspace + mutex; see mutex.

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