Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 18:00:08 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional |
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Christopher Hoover wrote: > > > > (I ran a futex-free ppc64 kernel. It worked.) > > Yep. I'm run an ARM kernel as well. Works fine.
And do you guys actually use a recent glibc snapshot? Do you ever expect to? Do you ever expect to run a third-party specialized web-server or database library? All things that can use futex'es, and probably will.
I will strongly argue against making futexes conditional, simply because I _want_ people to be able to depend on them in modern kernels. I do not want developers to fall back on SysV semaphores just because it's too painful for them to use the faster alternatives.
Linus
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