Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-18 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 12/18/2015 12:21 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote: > On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 13:18 -0800, Darren Hart wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> >>>When executing a futex operation that requests to block a thread, >>>the kernel will block onl

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-18 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 12/18/2015 12:11 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote: > On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 16:54 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hello Darren, >> >> On 12/15/2015 10:18 PM, Darren Hart wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> >> [...] >> When ex

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-18 Thread Jonathan Wakely
On 18/12/15 12:11 +0100, Torvald Riegel wrote: On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 16:54 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: Hello Darren, On 12/15/2015 10:18 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: [...] >>When executing a futex o

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-18 Thread Torvald Riegel
On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 14:41 -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > > When executing a futex operation that requests to block a thread, > > the kernel will block only if the futex word has the value that > > the calling thre

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-18 Thread Torvald Riegel
On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 13:18 -0800, Darren Hart wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > > >When executing a futex operation that requests to block a thread, > >the kernel will block only if the futex word has the value that > >

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-18 Thread Torvald Riegel
On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 16:54 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Darren, > > On 12/15/2015 10:18 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > > [...] > > >>When executing a futex operation that requests to block a

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello Darren, On 12/15/2015 10:18 PM, Darren Hart wrote: > On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: [...] >>When executing a futex operation that requests to block a thread, >>the kernel will block only if the futex word has the value that >>

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-16 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hi David, On 12/15/2015 11:41 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote: > On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > >> When executing a futex operation that requests to block a thread, >> the kernel will block only if the futex word has the value that >> the calling thread

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-15 Thread Davidlohr Bueso
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: When executing a futex operation that requests to block a thread, the kernel will block only if the futex word has the value that the calling thread supplied (as one of the arguments of the futex() call) as t

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-15 Thread Darren Hart
On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 02:43:50PM +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello all, > > After much too long a time, the revised futex man page *will* > go out in the next man pages release (it has been merged > into master). > > There are various places where the page could still be improve

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-15 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello Torvald, On 12/15/2015 04:34 PM, Torvald Riegel wrote: > On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 14:43 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> After much too long a time, the revised futex man page *will* >> go out in the next man pages release (it has been merged >> into master). >> >>

Re: futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-15 Thread Torvald Riegel
On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 14:43 +0100, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello all, > > After much too long a time, the revised futex man page *will* > go out in the next man pages release (it has been merged > into master). > > There are various places where the page could still be improved, > bu

futex(3) man page, final draft for pre-release review

2015-12-15 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello all, After much too long a time, the revised futex man page *will* go out in the next man pages release (it has been merged into master). There are various places where the page could still be improved, but it is much better (and more than 5 times longer) than the existing page. The render