Re: kernel bug: futex_wait hang

[Jamie Lokier]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 04:48 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > I argued for fixing Glibc on the grounds that the changed kernel
> > behaviour, or more exactly having Glibc depend on it, loses a certain
> > semantic property useful for unusual operations on multiple futexes at
> > the same time.  But I appear to have lost the argument, and Jakub's
> > latest patch does clean up some cruft quite nicely, with no expected
> > performance hit.
> 
> A glibc fix will take forever to get to users compared to a kernel fix.

Interesting perspective.  On my systems Glibc is upgraded more often
than the kernel.

-- Jamie
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