How To Install libfullock on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfullock on CentOS 7.
What is libfullock
fullock is an open-source software for user level lock library sup- ported by Yahoo! JAPAN. It runs on user level and provides two types lock. One is a shared reader/writer lock which has the same function- ality with pthread_rwlock. Another is a shared mutex lock which also has the same functionality with pthread_mutex. Here is primary fullock features 1. fullock is a thread safety library which can be used for multi- processing as well as for multi-threading. 2. fullock releases a mutex lock safely even if a lock owner process exit with 0 in which case OS doesn’t release the lock. 3. fullock provides a shared reader/writer lock. A lock owner thread can get another lock again without deadlock. Please visit our website and get more details at https
We can use yum or dnf to install libfullock on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libfullock.
Install libfullock on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libfullock using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install libfullock
Install libfullock on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install libfullock using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install libfullock
How To Uninstall libfullock on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libfullock package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove libfullock
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libfullock on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
