| Date | Thu, 15 May 2014 17:35:44 +0200 | From | chrubis@suse ... | Subject | Re: futex(2) man page update help request |
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Hi! > > 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.
+1
And while cleaning the LTP[1] testcases, we are slowly extracting the special cases into commont code.
[1] http://linux-test-project.github.io/
-- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
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