On Tue, 2005-03-22 at 04:48 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I argued for fixing Glibc on the grounds that the changed kernel
> behaviour, or more exactly having Glibc depend on it, loses a certain
> semantic property useful for unusual operations on multiple futexes at
> the same time.  But I appear to have lost the argument, and Jakub's
> latest patch does clean up some cruft quite nicely, with no expected
> performance hit.

A glibc fix will take forever to get to users compared to a kernel fix.

Lee

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