Re: futex(2) man page update help request

From: Joseph S. Myers
Date: Thu May 15 2014 - 11:16:10 EST


On Wed, 14 May 2014, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:

> > If I'm wrong, or we can restore the futex() call, great. If not... Should
> > we keep the man-pages and document it as syscall(SYS_futex, ..., op, ...) ?
>
> +1, is there anything preventing adding a futex wrapper... glibc folks?

See what I said at
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9712#c4> (with references
to previous discussions). Someone needs to take the lead on pushing to
consensus the question of what syscalls should have wrappers in glibc, and
then implement the conclusions.

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