Re: [patch] clone_startup(), 2.5.31-A0

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:47:02 +0100


Rusty Russell wrote:
> > btw., with the help of these syscalls and futexes, the layer between Linux
> > and pthreads became very thin - almost nonexistant in the majority of
> > cases.
>
> Woohoo!

Yes, futexes are wonderful, if quite difficult to figure out at first.
(I still haven't understood why the futex example reader-writer locks are
they way are.)

Even things like waitpid() are potentially faster with futexes -- no pid
to lookup!

-- Jamie
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