Re: CVS commit: src/sys/compat/linux/common

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:48:57PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> 
> 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.

I was just thinking that something like WINE might want to use it.

        David

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