Proposed futex2 allows Linux to mimic the NT kernel for better Wine performance 5 years ago
I guess they didn't go down that path in order to increase portability. A good chunk of crossover (wine with paid support) customers run macOS.
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I guess they didn't go down that path in order to increase portability. A good chunk of crossover (wine with paid support) customers run macOS.
It's still a thing! kernel: https://repo.or.cz/linux/zf.git/shortlog/refs/heads/winesync wine: https://repo.or.cz/wine/zf.git/shortlog/refs/heads/fastsync2
They decided to rename it since the kernel maintainers don't want NT interfaces and having NT in the name doesn't help