linux-kernel - Re: futex(2) man page update help request

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1405151510430.3155@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 15 May 2014 15:15:48 +0000
From:	"Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@...esourcery.com>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@...com>
CC:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>,
	"linux-man@...r.kernel.org" <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@...com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: futex(2) man page update help request

On Wed, 14 May 2014, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:

> > If I'm wrong, or we can restore the futex() call, great. If not... Should
> > we keep the man-pages and document it as syscall(SYS_futex, ..., op, ...) ?
> 
> +1, is there anything preventing adding a futex wrapper... glibc folks?

See what I said at 
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9712#c4> (with references 
to previous discussions).  Someone needs to take the lead on pushing to 
consensus the question of what syscalls should have wrappers in glibc, and 
then implement the conclusions.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@...esourcery.com
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