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Ulrich Drepper wrote: >> Of course we would need a new syscall, and to change glibc to be able to >> actually use this new private_futex syscall. > > > No, why? The kernel already does recognize private mutexes. It just > checks whether the pages used to store it are private or mapped. This > requires some interaction with the memory subsystem but as long as no > crashes happen the data can change underneath. It's the program's > fault if it does. Because that requires taking mmap_sem. Avoiding that is the whole purpose, isn't it? -- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com - 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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