The biggest changes last month were a series of commits by waddlesplash, all related to the user\\_mutex API and the consumers of it. This API is the kernel portion of the implementation of basically anything related to mutexes or locks in userland, including pthread\\_mutex, pthread\\_cond, pthread\\_barrier, unnamed semaphores (via sem\\_open), rwlocks, and more. It bears some resemblance in concept to Linux’s futex API, but is very different in both design an ... ⌘ Read more
The biggest changes last month were a series of commits by waddlesplash, all related to the user\\_mutex API and the consumers of it. This API is the kernel portion of the implementation of basically anything related to mutexes or locks in userland, including pthread\\_mutex, pthread\\_cond, pthread\\_barrier, unnamed semaphores (via sem\\_open), rwlocks, and more. It bears some resemblance in concept to Linux’s futex API, but is very different in both design an ... ⌘ Read more