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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Revised futex(2) man page for review
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 23:40:21 +0200 (CEST)
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:53:21AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > So, please take a look at the page below. At this point,
> > I would most especially appreciate help with the FIXMEs.
> 
> For people who cannot read that troff gibberish (me)..

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

You might mention that pthread_mutex, pthread_condvar interfaces are
high level wrappers for the syscall and recommended to be used for
normal use cases. IIRC unnamed semaphores are implemented with futexes
as well.

Thanks,

	tglx
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