Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/13] Add futex2 syscall

From: Stefan Metzmacher
Date: Mon Mar 08 2021 - 06:53:27 EST



Am 07.03.21 um 12:56 schrieb Daurnimator:
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 22:35, Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Instead of having a blocked futex_waitv() waiting on an fd (maybe a generic eventfd() or a new futex2fd())
>> would be a better interface?
>
> Like bring back FUTEX_FD? (which was removed back in 2.6.25)

Ah, ok, yes something like that.

But as that was removed because of races, but might not be a good idea to bring it back.

metze