Mark Kettenis wrote:
> We can just call copyin(9) since it already is atomic.  But check
> whether the userland futex is properly aligned and return EFAULT if it
> isn't such that this system call behaves like it does on strict
> alignment architectures.

hmm. do we want this? i understand the appeal, but due to differing
compilers/etc, some structs that are carefully packed on some platforms may
not be aligned on i386. however, they would be correctly aligned where
required.

are we trying to prevent a problem that doesn't exist?
but not a major objection.

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