Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:40:21 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: Revised futex(2) man page for review |
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:53:21AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > So, please take a look at the page below. At this point, > > I would most especially appreciate help with the FIXMEs. > > For people who cannot read that troff gibberish (me)..
Ditto :)
> NOTES > Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using > syscall(2).
You might mention that pthread_mutex, pthread_condvar interfaces are high level wrappers for the syscall and recommended to be used for normal use cases. IIRC unnamed semaphores are implemented with futexes as well.
Thanks,
tglx
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