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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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.