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Subject: Re: futex(2) man page update help request
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On 05/14/2014 09:18 AM, Darren Hart wrote:
> 
> However, unless I'm sorely mistaken, the larger problem is that glibc
> removed the futex() call entirely, so these man pages don't describe
> something users even have access to anymore. I had to revert to calling
> the syscalls directly in the futextest test suite because of this:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dvhart/futextest.git/tree/inclu
> de/futextest.h#n67
> 

This really comes down to the fact that we should have a libinux which
contains the basic system call wrapper machinery for Linux specific
things and nothing else.

syscall(3) is toxic and breaks randomly on some platforms.

	-hpa