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In message <20030520075627.A28002@infradead.org> you write: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:27:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > yes, but the damage has been done already, and now we've got to start the > > slow wait for the old syscall to flush out of our tree. > > Actually it should go away before 2.6.0. sys_futex never was part of a > released stable kernel so having the old_ version around is silly. Hmm, in that case I'd say "just break it", and I'd be all in favour of demuxing the syscall. But I think vendors have backported and released futexes, which is why Ingo did this... (Although you might be right about "by the time 2.6 is out" 8) Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. - 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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