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Re: Futex error handling
- From: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>, 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 19:17:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: Futex error handling
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On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:59:18PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for taking this on. The futex(7) man page seems like the right
> place for that, and it's rather thin now.
I would really like to expose futex(2) as a public interface and see
it documented there.. :-) I know that's something of a separate topic,
but it seems like a good time to discuss since the documentation is
going to be worked on, and since C11 atomics make having futex()
available to applications A LOT more desirable.
Rich