Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2003 11:12:28 +0200 | From | Ingo Oeser <> | Subject | Re: [patch] futex requeueing feature, futex-requeue-2.5.69-D3 |
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Hi,
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:56:27AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 08:27:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > yes, but the damage has been done already, and now we've got to start the > > slow wait for the old syscall to flush out of our tree. > > Actually it should go away before 2.6.0. sys_futex never was part of a > released stable kernel so having the old_ version around is silly. I > Think it's enough time until 2.6 hits the roads for people to have those > vendor libc flushed out that use it. (and sys_futex still isn't used > in the glibc CVS, only in the addon nptl package with pre-1 release > numbers.)
This sounds reasonable. The people who shipped that already to customers have so heavily patched kernels, that this simple patch for the old sys_futex shouldn't really matter.
But cluttering the kernel with an API/ABI that was born in the same development cycle, where it has been obsoleted sounds not worth the bytes it consumes. And so we have a syscall slot available for the next development cycle.
Or did anybody promise that this was final already? Usally this promise comes with x.even.y not with x.odd.y .
Regards
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