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Yeah they're making progress in unlocking most syscalls at the moment, but as far as I understand they're still some ways behind FreeBSD


FreeBSD removed their “lock” decades ago.


I believe BSDi, the entity in the AT&T lawsuit in the 90s, did the work.


"The SMPng Project relied heavily on the support of BSDi, who provided reference source code from the fine-grained SMP implementation found in BSD/OS.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?smp


I believe this was FreeBSD 5 (2003), yes.




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