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term: Futex
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This term is an abbreviation for
`Fast User-Space Locking <https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/futex.2.html>`_.
The futex support in RTEMS is provided for the barriers of the
${openmp:/term} library provided by ${gcc:/term}. It could be used to
implement high performance ${smp:/term} synchronization primitives which
offer random-fairness.
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