A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

Posted Oct 7, 2011 21:58 UTC (Fri) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129)
In reply to: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux by kpfleming
Parent article: A Plumber's Wish List for Linux

I think that this was the purpose of FUTEX_FD, see man 2 futex. It was removed in 2.6.26 though, due to being inherently racy.