| Date | Wed, 14 May 2014 17:18:53 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: futex(2) man page update help request |
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On 05/14/2014 09:18 AM, Darren Hart wrote: > > However, unless I'm sorely mistaken, the larger problem is that glibc > removed the futex() call entirely, so these man pages don't describe > something users even have access to anymore. I had to revert to calling > the syscalls directly in the futextest test suite because of this: > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dvhart/futextest.git/tree/inclu > de/futextest.h#n67 >
This really comes down to the fact that we should have a libinux which contains the basic system call wrapper machinery for Linux specific things and nothing else.
syscall(3) is toxic and breaks randomly on some platforms.
-hpa
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