Restartable Sequences: Linux Concept for Thread-Safe Data Structures

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Linux 4.18+ introduced restartable sequences (rseq), allowing thread-safe data structures without locks or atomics, but currently only accessible through handwritten assembly code.

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Restartable Sequences

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