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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: futex and timeouts
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 01:59:38PM -0500, Hubertus Franke wrote:
> > > What I would like to see is an interface that lets me pass optional
> > > parameters to the syscall interface, so I can call with different number
> > > of parameters.
> >
> > Is this to lock multiple futexes "atomically"? If we are
> > looking for a fast path stack-wise, this seems extra work.
>
> No, take for example...
>
> syscall3(int,futex,int,op, struct futex*, futex, int opt_arg);

Oh, I totally misparsed your statement. I thought you meant you
wanted a vararg sys_futex(), not a smarter _syscall() :-)

Joel

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