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[$] Windows NT synchronization primitives for Linux
Friday February 16, 2024. 05:14 PM , from LWN.net
The futex
mechanism provided by the kernel allows for the creation of efficient and flexible locking primitives in user space. Futexes work well for many applications, but not all. One of the exceptions, it seems, is that perennially difficult-to-support use case: Windows games. With this patch series, Elizabeth Figura seeks to provide the sort of locking that those games need, by way of a special-purpose virtual device.
https://lwn.net/Articles/961884/
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