Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: kernel bug: futex_wait hang | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:15:49 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 04:48 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > I argued for fixing Glibc on the grounds that the changed kernel > behaviour, or more exactly having Glibc depend on it, loses a certain > semantic property useful for unusual operations on multiple futexes at > the same time. But I appear to have lost the argument, and Jakub's > latest patch does clean up some cruft quite nicely, with no expected > performance hit.
A glibc fix will take forever to get to users compared to a kernel fix.
Lee
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