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Re:Landing a new syscall, part 1: What is futex? by ww520 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:59PM (#30281560)
Lock doesn't have to sleep. The semantic of a lock is that on acquisition it blocks until it's available, and upon unblocking the caller thread has acquired the lock. The blocking can be sleep or be doing busy-spin.

Futex is the lower level mechanism to build higher level locks like mutex/semphore/conditional-variable/etc.

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