Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux

Posted Feb 21, 2024 1:26 UTC (Wed) by itsmycpu (guest, #139639)
In reply to: Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux by tialaramex
Parent article: Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux

Maybe that was just meant to say that implementing a mutex requires similar programming techniques (atomic operations, avoiding issues like race conditions) as lock-free programming.

Of course, there can be (and there are already some) higher level abstractions for lock-free programming as well.