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Re: [COMMITTED PATCH] NaCl: Add NaCl-specific __lll_timedlock_wait.
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "GNU C. Library" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 16:44:12 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [COMMITTED PATCH] NaCl: Add NaCl-specific __lll_timedlock_wait.
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> On Tue, 2015-05-26 at 15:31 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > +/* This behaves the same as the generic version in nptl/. It's simpler
> > + because it doesn't need to convert an absolute timeout to a relative
> > + one (and back again in the lll_futex_timed_wait macro). */
>
> If you remember the new glibc-internal futex API I proposed, it provided
> variants for both absolute and relative timeouts. Would now be a good
> time to pursue adding this API so that changes like this wouldn't need
> to be NaCl-specific?
Certainly! As you might surmise, I'm going through old email backlog now.
I hope to get caught up by the end of this week, and then be in a position
to interact helpfully on new reviews. (I've seen your new futex API patch
but not read it yet, and will get through all the old backlog first.)
Thanks,
Roland