Re: futex(2) man page update help request

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Wed, 14 May 2014, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:

> > If I'm wrong, or we can restore the futex() call, great. If not... Should
> > we keep the man-pages and document it as syscall(SYS_futex, ..., op, ...) ?
> 
> +1, is there anything preventing adding a futex wrapper... glibc folks?

See what I said at 
<https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9712#c4> (with references 
to previous discussions).  Someone needs to take the lead on pushing to 
consensus the question of what syscalls should have wrappers in glibc, and 
then implement the conclusions.

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Joseph S. Myers
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