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FULLOCK - Fast User Level LOCK library

FULLOCK is a lock library provided by Yahoo! JAPAN, that is very fast and runs on user level.
This library provides two lock type.
One is shared reader/writer lock like that provided by fcntl, another is shared mutex which is specified by name.

These provide the functionality of more than pthread_rwlock and pthread_mutex, and is faster than fcntl.

• Support multi-threading
• Support multi-processing
• Automatically unlock when the process is terminated while holding the lock
• Automatically unlock when the thread is terminated while holding the lock
• Automatically unlock when the file handle is closed while holding the lock
• Not dead lock by same thread locking
• Provide programming interface like posix mutex and rwlock

• Document top page
• Github wiki page
• About AntPickax

• RPM packages(packagecloud.io)
• Debian packages(packagecloud.io)

• libfullock(Docker Hub)
• libfullock-dev(Docker Hub)

This software is released under the MIT License, see the license file.

fullock is one of AntPickax products.

Copyright(C) 2015 Yahoo Japan Corporation.