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On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Rusty Russell wrote: > > > Is this related to the thread library work that IBM was doing or was > > > this independently developed? > > > > independently developed. > > And, ironically, using the futex implementation developed on IBM time 8). you are right, futexes are really important for all the userspace locking primitives and thread-joining. And like basically all core kernel code, futexes were a collaborative effort as well: * Thanks to Ben LaHaise for yelling "hashed waitqueues" loudly * enough at me, Linus for the original (flawed) idea, Matthew * Kirkwood for proof-of-concept implementation. there are so many prerequisites to this that it's impossible to list them all. What i meant above were the specific patches developed for recent 2.5 kernels, and the library itself. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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