> > How long have futex's been used on hppa? I guess we really need to try > > run the glibc testsuite on a new kernel. > > The futex function has been available almost since futex's first appeared > > The futex API is exported to userspace and can be used by any application. > > e.g. man futex > ~~~ > NAME > futex - Fast Userspace Locking system call This is only supposition but a broken futex call might cause the type of problems we are seeing. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
