On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:53:21AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > So, please take a look at the page below. At this point, > > I would most especially appreciate help with the FIXMEs. > > For people who cannot read that troff gibberish (me).. Ditto :) > NOTES > Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using > syscall(2). You might mention that pthread_mutex, pthread_condvar interfaces are high level wrappers for the syscall and recommended to be used for normal use cases. IIRC unnamed semaphores are implemented with futexes as well. Thanks, tglx -- 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