Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:18:58 -0800 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] POSIX message queues - syscalls & SIGEV_THREAD |
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Jamie Lokier wrote: > This is the flaw I would like to fix for async futexes,
Well, this should be discussed much more before doing anything.
IMO, for 2.6 FUTEX_FD should be removed or disabled. It doesn't work reliably.
As for later, and which extensions to add, Ingo and I discussed this quite a bit already. One of the problems is that once you extend the basic set of operations the possible way are very numerous and the interfaces can explode in number.
My hopes are that we can come up with some nice and generally useful additions in the not too distant future and that they can be added to the 2.6 kernel. IMO we cannot wait for the next stable release.
I am not sure that this list is the adequate forum for discussing the futex extensions. If somebody says where it should take place and somebody actually declares willingness to work on the implementation side, I can write down my thoughts and post it.
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