Michael Schnell schrieb: > BTW.: > The v5 workaround code not only is less efficient (doing busy > splinocks), it also creates potential deadlocks in certain cases > (realtime priority), is not 100% secure and it might be that certain > chips even fail handling the swap instruction atomicly and thus the code > will not work at all. > > Thus, IMHO, basing the userland part of Futex on this is not recommended. > > The "common" Linux functions are guaranteed to work decently (with > Kernel support if necessary) and always are as fast as possible.
Maybe you should write a patch before you have to repeat this for the next ten years. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
