Hi! > > 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/inclu > > 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. +1 And while cleaning the LTP[1] testcases, we are slowly extracting the special cases into commont code. [1] http://linux-test-project.github.io/ -- Cyril Hrubis chrubis@xxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
