On 05/14/2014 05:35 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> More fundamentally, futex(2), like clone(2), are things that can be
>> legitimately by user space without automatically breaking all of glibc.
>
> I'm lost -- I think the missing verb is important :)
>
... legitimately *used* by user space ...
As in you can use it to implement your own, non-POSIX, synchronization
primitives.
-hpa
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