Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:56:05 +0200 | | From | Michael Schnell <> | | Subject | Re: implementing Futex |
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Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The man page says that the last parameter is ignored for op=FUTEX_WAKE, > which is correct. The code that you were looking at however is for > of=FUTEX_WAKE_OP, which is not documented as of manpages-3.22. > > It was added by Jakub back in 2005, but if he wrote a documentation > for it, it never went into the man pages package. On a similar > note, Ingo also added other futex operations that are not documented > yet. >
Thus in any documented software, the quite complex stuff in "futex_atomic_op_inuser", which is provided in several different "futex.h" files for all those architectures *never* is used ?
Weired !
Is there any viable use for this ?
Would it not be appropriate either to do a documentation or to remove it ?
-Michael
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