English Wikipedia has an article on: <span class="searchmatch">futex</span> Wikipedia Contraction of fast userspace mutex; see mutex. <span class="searchmatch">futex</span> (plural futexes) (computing) A mechanism for...
circumstances, you might prefer to use a mutex rather than a lock statement. <span class="searchmatch">futex</span> object in a program mutex (third-person singular simple present mutexes...