From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759187AbXJXRR7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:17:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753099AbXJXRRt (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:17:49 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47727 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752850AbXJXRRs (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:17:48 -0400 Message-ID: <471F7E2D.3010705@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:17:33 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hounschell CC: linux-kernel , Mark Hounschell Subject: Re: test_and_set_bit and friends ? References: <471DC9E8.7040104@cfl.rr.com> <471F2636.20408@cfl.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <471F2636.20408@cfl.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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