On Sat, 28 Mar 2015, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 09:53:21AM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
> > So, please take a look at the page below. At this point,
> > I would most especially appreciate help with the FIXMEs.
>
> For people who cannot read that troff gibberish (me)..
Ditto :)
> NOTES
> Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using
> syscall(2).
You might mention that pthread_mutex, pthread_condvar interfaces are
high level wrappers for the syscall and recommended to be used for
normal use cases. IIRC unnamed semaphores are implemented with futexes
as well.
Thanks,
tglx
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
