Re: [PATCH] futex null pointer timeout

From: Daniel Walker
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 07:46:15 EST


On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 13:26 +0100, Pierre Peiffer wrote:
> Ingo Molnar a Ãcrit :
> > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >> The patch reworks do_futex, and futex_wait* so a NULL pointer in the
> >> timeout position is infinite, and anything else is evaluated as a real
> >> timeout.
> >
> > thanks, applied.
> >
>
> On top of this patch, you will need the following patch: futex_lock_pi is also
> involved.
>

True.

Daniel

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