diff --git a/src/basic/process-util.c b/src/basic/process-util.c
index 6980e0c4f6..493e4dcedb 100644
--- a/src/basic/process-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/process-util.c
@@ -1147,7 +1147,7 @@ void reset_cached_pid(void) {
 
 pid_t getpid_cached(void) {
         static bool installed = false;
-        pid_t current_value;
+        pid_t current_value = CACHED_PID_UNSET;
 
         /* getpid_cached() is much like getpid(), but caches the value in local memory, to avoid having to invoke a
          * system call each time. This restores glibc behaviour from before 2.24, when getpid() was unconditionally
@@ -1158,7 +1158,13 @@ pid_t getpid_cached(void) {
          * https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=c579f48edba88380635ab98cb612030e3ed8691e
          */
 
-        current_value = __sync_val_compare_and_swap(&cached_pid, CACHED_PID_UNSET, CACHED_PID_BUSY);
+        __atomic_compare_exchange_n(
+                        &cached_pid,
+                        &current_value,
+                        CACHED_PID_BUSY,
+                        false,
+                        __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST,
+                        __ATOMIC_SEQ_CST);
 
         switch (current_value) {