From: Justin Cormack <justin@specialbusservice.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: capset() capget() syscalls
Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 23:12:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK4o1Wxxt=oEoF6dzsxCgLAJMDpZJxxEZT=O=Bu0ypp6NSaoEw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120909215516.GJ27715@brightrain.aerifal.cx>
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:
> With something like futex that's a trivial syscall, I'm not sure what
> qualifies it for a separate lib rather than inclusion in libc. The
> library would be <20 bytes of code on most archs... That's not to say
> I think we have to expose it in musl, but I think using a separate
> library (especially if there's any chance of it being built as a .so
> rather than just .a) is a worse choice than just writing
> syscall(SYS_futex, ...) in your source...
The manpage says
To reiterate, bare futexes are not intended as an easy-to-use
abstraction for end-users. (There
is no wrapper function for this system call in glibc.)
Implementors are expected to be assembly
literate and to have read the sources of the futex userspace
library referenced below.
I thought (from memory) the non-contended case required architecture
specific assembly, the syscall just dealt with contended case. So the
library needs to provide the other stuff to make it usable. Its not a
lot, and must be there to use these for threading I guess, but doesnt
have standard names?
Justin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-09 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-27 11:51 igmar
2012-09-05 6:19 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-05 9:28 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-09-05 14:24 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-05 17:01 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-06 3:04 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-06 3:10 ` John Spencer
2012-09-06 3:20 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-06 3:28 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-06 3:41 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-06 4:41 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-09-06 8:22 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-06 9:28 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2012-09-06 14:23 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-07 4:56 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-08 16:02 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-08 22:14 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 20:04 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 20:14 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 21:13 ` James Cloos
2012-09-09 21:55 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 22:12 ` Justin Cormack [this message]
2012-09-09 22:29 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 22:37 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-10 15:07 ` James Cloos
2012-09-08 21:25 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-08 22:15 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-08 23:56 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 0:21 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 8:21 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 19:40 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 21:02 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 21:07 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 21:23 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 21:31 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-09 21:58 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-09 22:14 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-15 1:54 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-16 14:13 ` Justin Cormack
2012-09-17 2:27 ` Rich Felker
2012-09-06 11:47 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-09-06 11:36 ` Igmar Palsenberg
2012-09-06 14:11 ` Rich Felker
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