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Re: Futex error handling
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat 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>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 10:48:35 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Futex error handling
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> I would prefer that unexpected error codes cause glibc to crash. This
> immediately alerts kernel and glibc developers of a mismatch in their
> expectations before this ever gets out of experimental distributions.
That's my inclination as well.