Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:21:57 -0400 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long |
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On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 11:19:06PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > The attraction is that the kernel abstractions are very nice. > > Much of the POSIX API sucks ass. The kernel stuff is NOT crap. > > > > Here we have a full-featured set of atomic ops, > > which are not atomic actually in userspace (hint: most apps don't have > CONFIG_SMP set)
Atomic ops for some architectures / configuration won't even work at al in userspace because they're implemented by disabling interrupts.
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