Thread (80 messages) 80 messages, 14 authors, 2015-02-16

Re: futex(2) man page update help request

From: H. Peter Anvin <hidden>
Date: 2014-05-15 00:41:58
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On 05/14/2014 05:35 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
quoted
More fundamentally, futex(2), like clone(2), are things that can be
legitimately by user space without automatically breaking all of glibc.
I'm lost -- I think the missing verb is important :)
... legitimately *used* by user space ...

As in you can use it to implement your own, non-POSIX, synchronization
primitives.

	-hpa

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