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		jart on Sept 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Finding the “second bug” in glibc’s condition vari... If you need really good synchronization primitives while Glibc is fixing things then I've had a lot of success with *NSYNC https://github.com/google/nsync which is what Cosmopolitan Libc uses to implement pthread_cond_t.

jeffbee on Sept 18, 2022 [–]

Its design is similar to absl::Mutex, which is available to c++ users. They may also have been written initially by Mike Burrows?

jart on Sept 19, 2022 | [–]

Yes. *NSYNC was built by Mike Burrows. The guy famous for building Chubby and Altavista. You wouldn't think it though, considering the project only has 188 stars.

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