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Richard Crowley

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I work on the best relational database in the cloud, PlanetScale . I also ride and wrench on bicycles.

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Things Unix can do atomically (2010)

This is a catalog of things UNIX-like/POSIX-compliant operating systems can do atomically, making them useful as building blocks for thread-safe and multi-process-safe programs without mutexes or read/write locks. The list is by no means exhaustive and I expect it to be updated frequently for the foreseeable future.