Re: [PATCH] futex null pointer timeout

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Jan 18 2007 - 08:09:49 EST



* Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar a écrit :
> >* Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> [...]
> >>The patch reworks do_futex, and futex_wait* so a NULL pointer in the
> >>timeout position is infinite, and anything else is evaluated as a real
> >>timeout.
> >
> >thanks, applied.
> >
>
> On top of this patch, you will need the following patch: futex_lock_pi
> is also involved.

thanks, applied. (FYI, your mailer added an extra space to every context
line in the patch and thus corrupted it, i fixed it up by hand.)

Ingo
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