I’m pretty sure developers of OS kernels are aware of these shenanigans. Here’s the implementation of queues in Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4

I’m pretty sure developers of OS kernels are aware of these shenanigans. Here’s the implementation of queues in Linux: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4334f30ebf395b204c6cbeabf371a5a998d6ba7c/ipc/mqueue.c https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/4334f30ebf395b204c6cb... I never worked on that kernel, but on the first sight it looks like they’re using a combination of locks and lock-free stuff there.