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 17:35:44 +0200 Message-ID: <20140515153544.GB6926@rei.Home> References: <537346E5.4050407@gmail.com> <537407ED.8050606@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <537407ED.8050606-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Darren Hart , "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 > > 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-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