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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 00/13] Add futex2 syscall
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Am 07.03.21 um 12:56 schrieb Daurnimator:
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 22:35, Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org> wrote:
>> Instead of having a blocked futex_waitv() waiting on an fd (maybe a generic eventfd() or a new futex2fd())
>> would be a better interface?
> 
> Like bring back FUTEX_FD? (which was removed back in 2.6.25)

Ah, ok, yes something like that.

But as that was removed because of races, but might not be a good idea to bring it back.

metze