Re: __futex(2): use outside Linux compat

Robert Swindells <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
[email protected] wrote:
> In Mesa code implementations for futex_wake() and futex_wait() are
> provided for Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
>
> There is a __futex(2) syscall in NetBSD, used only for now, if I'm not
> mistaken, to implement Linux compat.

The Linux emulation of futexes in NetBSD does not work correctly.

> Is it OK to use for NetBSD "native" code since it is not "advertised"
> by a man page?

No.
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