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    SubjectRe: Revised futex(2) man page for review
    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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