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Yes, look up cmpxchg and friends.

FreeBSD has atomic.h providing a bunch of different atomic ops, e.g: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/amd64/include/...

I believe FreeBSD also uses this style of buffer for dmesg, which sadly also results in a lot of interlacing if two kernel threads are trying to write to the buffer at once.



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