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by corsix 1029 days ago
I’m pleased to see FUTEX2_SIZE_U64, but saddened that it isn’t actually implemented. It has always seemed like a very useful primitive to have.
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+99999999, it's seriously annoying to not be able to have a lock "superimposed" on a pointer (as done in lock-free datastructures, and particularly relevant for "intermediate" data structures where some operations can proceed lock-free but some block [e.g. hash table resizing])