Meaning

1 senses
  1. A mechanism for basic locking, based on an atomic integer in userspace that may be operated upon from multiple processes or threads.

Origin

Contraction of fast + userspace + mutex; see mutex.

Contraction of fast + userspace + mutex; see mutex.

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Forms

plural: futexes
Singularfutex
Pluralfutexes

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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