Re: [PATCH] 2.5.68 FUTEX support should be optional

From: Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Date: Wed May 14 2003 - 14:32:21 EST


On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 12:19:42PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> If this is what is wanted (and I don't really think it's useful is a MMU
> is available) you should explain the consequences in the help text.
> Basically, no current and future glibc version has the slightest chance
> of working.

That seems to imply that the current glibc makes futexes mandatory,
which surely isn't the case or we'd not be able to run with 2.4 and earlier
kernels.

                Dave

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