Re: [PATCH] man7/futex.7 remove buggy example

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On 09/04/2018 08:43 PM, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Shawn Landden <shawn@xxxxxxx>, 2018-09-02, 17:49:
>> This example use of futex(2) is buggy, as described in this paper
>> (which is referenced in futex(2)):
>> https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/futex.pdf
> 
> This patch doesn't do what the commit message says.
> It deletes the whole futex(7) man page:

Exactly.

Also, Shawn, while you made a general statement about
the example, it would be good to have a little more detail
about the intent of the patch. E.g., even just saying "so
delete the example" would be an improvement.

Thanks

Michael



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Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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