Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.18 Headers - Long | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:26:18 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 15:22 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On 7/16/06, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 02:38:45PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > On 7/16/06, Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com> wrote: > > > >On Jul 15, 2006, at 17:09:28, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > > > > > >You realize that on a couple architectures it's fundamentally > > > >impossible to get atomic ops completely in userspace, right? > > > > > > Sure. Those architectures don't need to drag down the rest. > > > Plenty of headers are only exported for some architectures. > > > > Wrong perspective. The problem is that they may _appear_ to work as > > described, but not actually work in the intended way. That's a bug, > > and it's a _hard_ bug to locate. > > Again: > > Plenty of headers are only exported for some architectures.
and guess what... atomic.h does not work on i386, at least it doesn't provide atomic access in userspace!
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