Atomically Protected Variables
by
Bryan Hinton
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last modified
Jul 03, 2009 03:39 PM
2.3 Atomically Protected Variables
An atomically protected variable is a special variable that is not protected by an explicit lock. Instead, all data accesses to the variables use special atomic operations as described in atomic(9). Very few variables are treated this way, although other synchronization primitives such as mutexes are implemented with atomically protected variables.
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mtx.mtx_lock
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