From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: futex(2) man page update help request Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 11:40:06 -0400 Message-ID: <20140515114006.52a4e07d@gandalf.local.home> References: <537346E5.4050407@gmail.com> <20140515152834.GA6926@rei.Home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20140515152834.GA6926-HSzIOc4LzcM@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: chrubis-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org Cc: Darren Hart , "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Jakub Jelinek , "linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , lkml , Davidlohr Bueso , Arnd Bergmann , Peter Zijlstra , Linux API , Carlos O'Donell List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 May 2014 17:28:35 +0200 chrubis-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org wrote: > 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 > > So there actually exists some tests for futexes, I've been asked if we > have these as a LTP[1] maintainer several times. > > Are these tests executed regulary as a part of some automated framework? > If not it would make sense to port them to LTP (looking at the code that > would be quite easy task) and get them executed by several QA > departments for free. What do you think? > > [1] http://linux-test-project.github.io/ > I think Thomas may be working on one. If not, I'd be happy to start writing one as well. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html