Specific Linux syscalls for glibc API

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 18-11-2015 16:35, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 11/18/2015 06:58 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
>> Do we really have a compelling reason for gettid?
> 
> It makes sense to use them in conjunction with process-shared futexes to
> indicate ownership.  The return value of pthread_self isn't meaningful
> to other processes.  Having to words (PID and address) complicates matters.

Are you referring to PI-futexes? If it is the case couldn't we just wrapper
the futex API to try not expose such information?

> 
> Florian
>