On 5/14/14, 17:18, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >On 05/14/2014 09:18 AM, Darren Hart wrote: >> >> However, unless I'm sorely mistaken, the larger problem is that glibc >> removed the futex() call entirely, so these man pages don't describe >> something users even have access to anymore. I had to revert to calling >> the syscalls directly in the futextest test suite because of this: >> >> >>http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dvhart/futextest.git/tree/inc >>lu >> de/futextest.h#n67 >> > >This really comes down to the fact that we should have a libinux which >contains the basic system call wrapper machinery for Linux specific >things and nothing else. > >syscall(3) is toxic and breaks randomly on some platforms. Peter Z and I have had a good time discussing this in the past.... And here it is again. :-) -- Darren Hart Open Source Technology Center darren.hart@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation -- 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
