From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Subject: Re: For review: nptl(7) man page Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2015 09:57:46 +0200 Message-ID: <55B1EFFA.9070608@gmail.com> References: <550ED3F4.1080403@gmail.com> <550F363B.801@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <550F363B.801-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Nicholas Miell , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, libc-alpha-9JcytcrH/bA+uJoB2kUjGw@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On 03/22/2015 10:38 PM, Nicholas Miell wrote: > On 03/22/2015 07:38 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I wrote a short man page documented some of the details of >> NPTL that might affect application developers. Review comments >> would be most welcome. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Michael > > POSIX specifies that process-shared pthread_mutex_t's can be manipulated > by independent processes, however the AMD64 and i386 versions of the > mutex structures are incompatible and cannot be shared. > > This might be true of the other supposedly sharable primitives, I never > bothered to check the rest when I first noticed the problem with mutexes. Nicholas, Can you provide pointers to further information on this topic? Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/ -- 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