On 05/14/2014 05:35 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: >> >> More fundamentally, futex(2), like clone(2), are things that can be >> legitimately by user space without automatically breaking all of glibc. > > I'm lost -- I think the missing verb is important :) > ... legitimately *used* by user space ... As in you can use it to implement your own, non-POSIX, synchronization primitives. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
