Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/compat/linux/common
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 11/05/2005 21:15:43
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> writes:

> To me, it is also a question of making sure that, if we're going to
> bother going through the trouble of making sure linux code will run
> emulated, we should make sure it will run natively compiled as well so
> we can be API compatible. We have clone(2) for much that reason too,
> and it initially appeared as something in the linux compat code.

I don't think you're going to find code other than the NPTL libpthread
that uses futexes.

        - Nathan