Re: [PATCH] add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE
From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Apr 12 2005 - 21:10:48 EST
Joe Korty <joe.korty@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> This patch adds EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE to all
> architectures. Though there is nothing in the kernel
> that uses them yet, I know of two patches in development,
> one by Intel and the other by Bull, that adds robust mutex
> support to pthread_mutex*.
We normally have objections to reserving parts of the name/number space for
external patches, but I think robust mutexes are sufficiently popular and
important to justify us making your lives easier.
Could you please reissue the patch, only add
/* For robust mutexes */
in the appropriate places? Otherwise someone will come in and try to clean
it up again.
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