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Re: Futex error handling
- From: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: GLIBC Devel <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Darren Hart <dvhart at infradead dot org>, Michael Kerrisk <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:46:18 +0200
- Subject: Re: Futex error handling
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On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 12:41 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > We got complains from the kernel side that glibc wouldn't react properly
> > to futex errors being returned. Thus, I'm looking at what we'd need to
> > actually improve. I'm using this here as a documentation for futex
> > error codes: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/15/356
>
> Can somebody work with Michael et al to ensure that the futex(2) man page
> becomes reliable documentation for this?
I've asked Michael about the current status and offered my help in case
we also want to document more high-level properties of futex, like how
to use it properly.