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ijvo/critical-section
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Lightweight class supporting critical section locking

v1.0.2(5y ago)04MITPHPPHP >=7.1.0

Since May 10Pushed 5y agoCompare

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CriticalSection
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[](#criticalsection)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/013de10be5c649af633cda274d95d20dea1d3842c60608d8a982e74c4b0aabbc/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f494a566f2f437269746963616c53656374696f6e2e7376673f6272616e63683d6d6173746572)](https://travis-ci.org/IJVo/CriticalSection)

Description
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[](#description)

Lightweight class supporting critical section locking.

It requires **PHP >= 7.1**.

###  Health Score

25

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LowBetter than 37% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity3

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity60

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 83.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~632 days

Total

3

Last Release

2029d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)v1.0.0PHP >=7.0.0

v1.0.2PHP >=7.1.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18380028?v=4)[Ing. Jaroslav Vaculík, IJVo](/maintainers/IJVo)[@IJVo](https://github.com/IJVo)

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Top Contributors

[![stekycz](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/865447?v=4)](https://github.com/stekycz "stekycz (20 commits)")[![IJVo](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18380028?v=4)](https://github.com/IJVo "IJVo (3 commits)")[![trejjam](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3594540?v=4)](https://github.com/trejjam "trejjam (1 commits)")

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Tags

parallellockscritical-section

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