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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>,
	"Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>,
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	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
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	Torvald Riegel <triegel@redhat.com>,
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	Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
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	bert hubert <bert.hubert@netherlabs.nl>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Revised futex(2) man page for review
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:40:21 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1504142323290.3845@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150328114725.GJ27490@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-04-14 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-28  8:53 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-03-28  8:56 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-03-28 11:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-28 12:03   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-03-31 20:36     ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-27 11:00       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-07-27 11:10     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-03-31 14:45   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-27 11:10     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-07-28  3:16       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-28  7:44         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-07-28 17:52           ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-28 18:09             ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-04-14 21:40   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2015-04-15 10:28     ` Torvald Riegel
2015-07-27 11:10       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-04-27 20:37   ` Pavel Machek
2015-07-27 11:10     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-07-28  2:52   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2015-07-28  6:39     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2015-03-31  1:48 ` Rusty Russell
2015-07-27 11:03   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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