Interlocked.CompareExchange using GreaterThan or LessThan instead of equality

Question

The System.Threading.Interlocked object allows for Addition (subtraction) and comparison as an atomic operation. It seems that a CompareExchange that just does

Answer 1

Greater/Less than and equal to are already atomic operations. That doesn't address the safe concurrent behavior of your application tho.

There is no point in making them part of the Interlocked family, so the question is: what are you actually trying to achieve?