On Tue, 2015-04-14 at 23:40 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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. If we add this, I'd rephrase it to something like that there are high-level programming abstractions such as the pthread_condvar interfaces or semaphores that are implemented using the syscall and that are typically a better fit for normal use cases. I'd consider only the condvars as something like a wrapper, or targeting a similar use case. -- 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
