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robust pthread mutexes too?
robust pthread mutexes too?
Posted Feb 16, 2006 22:51 UTC (Thu) by mingo (subscriber, #31122)In reply to: robust pthread mutexes too? by cdarroch
Parent article: Robust futexes - a new approach
Correct - these APIs are being standardized by POSIX, and this patchset aims at enabling them. Ulrich Drepper (glibc's maintainer) has already written the necessary glibc modifications to enable robust pthread_mutex_t mutexes, so once the new syscalls are accepted by the upstream kernel, glibc support should follow soon.
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