A fork() in the road

Re:A fork() in the road by DblPlusUngood on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @07:44AM (#19623666)

Is recovery of a shared memory queue after one of the workers crashes even possible, in general? (what if the worker crashed before releasing a lock?)

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Re:A fork() in the road by alkonaut on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @08:43AM (#19624025)

I’m not sure how this is usually done but I’d avoid locks at nearly any cost and try to use a lock-free spmc queue such as https://github.com/tudinfse/FFQ

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