Re: futex wait failure

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On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 05:28:58PM -0500, John David Anglin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 04:44:51PM -0500, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > >
> > > > However, I think Dave is on to something with the
> > > 
> > > ...kernel issue.
> > > 
> > > We might have *several* outstanding bugs :-)
> > > 
> > 
> > Hrm. We discussed this on IRC a while ago, I can't remember what we
> > decided was the best approach... there's probably many many dragons
> > here.
> > 
> > I wonder what would break if we set any EAGAIN returns to EWOULDBLOCK in
> > the exit path.
> 
> That seems reversed.  x86_64 translates the system's EWOULDBLOCK error
> into EAGAIN in sysdeps/unix/x86_64/sysdep.S.  However, don't know if this
> impacts the futex and sem_wait checks.

Yeah, you're right.

regards, Kyle
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