From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chrubis-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org Subject: Re: futex(2) man page update help request Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 17:28:35 +0200 Message-ID: <20140515152834.GA6926@rei.Home> References: <537346E5.4050407@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Darren Hart Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Jakub Jelinek , "linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , lkml , Davidlohr Bueso , Arnd Bergmann , Steven Rostedt , Peter Zijlstra , Linux API , Carlos O'Donell List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org 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/ -- Cyril Hrubis chrubis-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org -- 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