Re: DOCUMENTATION Re: [PATCH] Add FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE futex op

[bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>]

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:02:34AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:

> The man pages in the 2nd section document the behaviour of the userland
> wrappers (see e.g. read(2)), not what the kernel actually returns.

Ok - but in the absence of futex(2), is it perhaps better to move this page
to futex(9)? Or merge it into futex(4)?

> > Ulrich, does/will glibc provide a futex(2) function? Or should people just
> > call the syscall themselves? 
> 
> glibc doesn't provide a futex(2) function, so at least ATM people can use
> #include <sys/syscall.h>

If it will provide one, I'll change the page to be in line with how futex(2)
will probably work, with errno etc.

Regarding the verbiage, I need input about the use of the word 'process', as
I'm not sure if there is a generic word covering both processes and threads.
Jamie suggests 'tasks', but that is kernel lingo and of little use for
userspace developers. Suggestions?

Thanks.

bert

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