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A tempest in a toybox
I think I remember reading something on LKML about FUTEX_FD being broken...
Kernel events without kevents
Posted Mar 16, 2007 15:58 UTC (Fri) by pphaneuf (subscriber, #23480) [Link]
Since it doesn't see any use in the mutex API that everyone uses, it's not surprising... Code that's not used tends to rot.
Too bad, I would like that. I'll stay with my "pipes as semaphores" trick in the meantime...
Posted Mar 16, 2007 16:47 UTC (Fri) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/31/391
And it looks like there's no alternative other than self-pipes. Arg!
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