On Nov 5, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 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.

No, clone(2) was added specifically because it was needed by WINE.   
There is no point in our having an futex(2) implementation natively.

-- thorpej