public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
Subject: Re: test_and_set_bit and friends ?
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:17:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <471F7E2D.3010705@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471F2636.20408@cfl.rr.com>

Mark Hounschell wrote:
> Mark Hounschell wrote:
>> These calls apparently are gone. Can someone tell me why and what are
>> the replacements.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Mark
> 
> I got no response from the glibc people on this and the kernel-newbies
> list appears dead so I thought I'd try here since these calls are/were
> actually kernel based to begin with. Why are they no longer available in
> user space and what is one supposed to use now?
> 

There was talk of a libarch for these sorts of things.  Don't know if 
that ever happened.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-24 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <471DC9E8.7040104@cfl.rr.com>
2007-10-24 11:02 ` test_and_set_bit and friends ? Mark Hounschell
2007-10-24 17:17   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
     [not found] <fa.qZKT99AD2hc7Jh4djYdvRApuWLw@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.9c/G28WUUK+ko/84Dr2THTV2Bls@ifi.uio.no>
2007-10-24 14:24   ` Robert Hancock

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=471F7E2D.3010705@zytor.com \
    --to=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=dmarkh@cfl.rr.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=markh@compro.net \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox