From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 10 03:49:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78B716A549 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:49:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3274B13C471 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:49:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B230C46C14; Fri, 9 Mar 2007 22:49:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:49:08 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Kip Macy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070310034755.S30274@fledge.watson.org> References: <45F1A97D.7090608@cs.rice.edu> <989648.79906.qm@web32913.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45F1EEEC.3090506@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, David Xu Subject: Re: Fwd: user-space locks X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:49:09 -0000 On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Kip Macy wrote: > Do you think that the umtx KPI may have reached the appropriate level of > maturity for writing up a man page? The KSE equivalent has had a substantive > man page for quite some time. I would be more than happy to do any of the > necessary technical copy-editing for the English. > > At this point I think you may be the only person well acquainted with the > KPI. Thanks. During our threading discussion and code-reading session at the dev summit, the KSE man page was very helpful in understanding what was going on; having similar man pages for the libthr and umtx system calls would have been very helpful. The interfaces are a lot less complicated, but man pages are very useful generally. :-) Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge > > -Kip > > > Kip Macy wrote: >> umtx > > julian@trafmon1:man -k umtx > umtx: nothing appropriate > julian@trafmon1: > > also if you use umtx I think you limit yourself to libthr. > > >> >> On 3/9/07, Peter Holmes wrote: >>> Does FreeBSD have anything similar to Futexes for >>> Linux. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> >>> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Looking for earth-friendly autos? >>> Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. >>> http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>> "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >