# fullock

**Repository Path**: gongwayne/fullock

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: fullock
- **Description**: Fast User Level LOCK library
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-01-13
- **Last Updated**: 2021-05-20

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## README

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FULLOCK - Fast User Level LOCK library

### Overview

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.  

![FULLOCK](https://fullock.antpick.ax/images/top_fullock.png)

### Feature
  - 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

### Documents
  - [Document top page](https://fullock.antpick.ax/)
  - [Github wiki page](https://github.com/yahoojapan/fullock/wiki)
  - [About AntPickax](https://antpick.ax/)

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

### AntPickax
fullock is one of [AntPickax](https://antpick.ax/) products.

Copyright(C) 2015 Yahoo Japan Corporation.