Re: futex question

[Anirban Sinha]

Once upon a time, like on 09-10-05 6:28 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Can you please fix your mail client to do proper line breaks at around
> 78 chars ?

Hmm. I made that change deliberately according to instructions in
Documentation/email-clients.txt so that it does not break my patches :) Anyway,
back to previous setting.

>>
>> We need to clear those pointers regardless. After the exceve(), the
>> address values are meaningless under the new mm context.
> 
> That's out of question. We just need to come to a decision whether we
> silently clean up callers dumbness or not.

Correct me if I am wrong, but according to Ingo:

> So i think exec() should release all existing state, unless told
> otherwise. Making it behave differently for robust futexes sounds
> assymetric to me.

I thought clearing the head pointers was a part of the stale existing state?
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