Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:47:02 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0 |
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Rusty Russell wrote: > > btw., with the help of these syscalls and futexes, the layer between Linux > > and pthreads became very thin - almost nonexistant in the majority of > > cases. > > Woohoo!
Yes, futexes are wonderful, if quite difficult to figure out at first. (I still haven't understood why the futex example reader-writer locks are they way are.)
Even things like waitpid() are potentially faster with futexes -- no pid to lookup!
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