Re: [PATCH] Futexes IV (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores)

Ulrich Drepper
2002-03-20T17:21:24Z

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On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 02:42, Peter Wächtler wrote:

> Well, mutexes are not semaphores. Why not have fusema or fuma?
> They are good for thread pools where you want several workers.

I have absolutely no objections whatsoever to get semaphore support in
the kernel. It would be much more efficient in some situations and the
basic infrastructures is already there. If you can convince the powers
there are to accept such a patch I'm all for it.

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