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sys_indirect()

Posted Nov 22, 2007 18:28 UTC (Thu) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386)
In reply to: sys_indirect() by tyhik
Parent article: sys_indirect()

The futex adds a unique and useful feature which can also be interesting for certain
apps/libraries other than glibc. The API is a bit ugly, mostly because of historical reasons
it seems.

But what they seem to be wanting to do here is providing a userspace wrapper in glibc for the
indirect variant of a syscall, and that's just plain silly.


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