English Explanatory Dictionary

seqlock

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A locking mechanism for supporting fast writes of shared variables between two parallel operating system routines, incrementing a counter at each stage to verify consistency.

Word forms

seqlock seqlocks

Etymology

Short for sequence lock.

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