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Re: futex for Mach?
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: futex for Mach? |
Date: |
Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:43:38 +0100 |
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On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 09:25:38PM -0500, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > In other words: We are adding a new requirement to the underlying kernel,
> > instead working with the minimal set of primitives.
>
> No, this is an implementation detail of one of the existing requirements,
> which is "libpthread implementation appropriate for the underlying kernel".
Mmh, ok. That is correct, it is limited to pthread and not exposed beyond
that.
> The only potentially wasted effort is that of adding futex to Mach and
> working on NPTL. The user-level stuff for using new Mach futex interfaces
> per se will be small, and the other stuff that needs to be done with NPTL
> and glibc is the tight integration with glibc and revamp of some hurdish
> glibc innards that we need eventually to do one way or the other.
>
> As to the kernel work, I think I can do that pretty quickly especially if
> we are not worried to begin with about it being especially fast.
Ok, that sounds good to me.
Thanks,
Marcus
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