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On Tue, 20 May 2003, Rusty Russell wrote: > > 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. have you all gone nuts??? It's not an option to break perfectly working binaries out there. Hell, we didnt even reorder the new NPTL syscalls/extensions 1-2 kernel releases after the fact. Please grow up! the interface should have been gotten right initially. We are all guilty of it - now lets face the consequences. It's only a couple of lines of code in a well isolated place of the file so i dont know what the fuss is about. I havent even added FUTEX_REQUEUE to the old API. > But I think vendors have backported and released futexes, which is why > Ingo did this... of course. And which brought the productization of futexes in the first place. 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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