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SubjectRe: Revised futex(2) man page for review
Hi!

> The FUTEX_WAIT_OP operation is equivalent to execute the follow???
> ing code atomically and totally ordered with respect to other
> futex operations on any of the two supplied futex words:

"to executing"?

> The operation and comparison that are to be performed are
> encoded in the bits of the argument val3. Pictorially, the
> encoding is:
>
> +---+---+-----------+-----------+
> |op |cmp| oparg | cmparg |
> +---+---+-----------+-----------+
> 4 4 12 12 <== # of bits
>

:-)

> RETURN VALUE
> In the event of an error, all operations return -1 and set errno to
> indicate the cause of the error. The return value on success depends
> on the operation, as described in the following list:

Did you say (at the begining) that there is no glibc wrapper?

> EINVAL The operation in futex_op is one of those that employs a time???
> out, but the supplied timeout argument was invalid (tv_sec was
> less than zero, or tv_nsec was not less than 1000,000,000).

1,000...?

> NOTES
> Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
> syscall(2).

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