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    3 months ago

    You need resource locks to prevent race conditions. Linux has locks as well as every other OS.

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      3 months ago

      Locks are only held during system calls. Process termination is handled on the system call boundary.

      You’re projecting windows kernel insanity where it doesn’t belong.