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Message-ID: <449cc77dc2bc153de7a2633ee8613b42@yqxmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2020 14:37:27 -0700 From: Hydro Flask <hydroflask@...mail.com> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Cc: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@...hat.com>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com> Subject: Re: Idea: futex() system call entry point On 2020-07-17 14:19, Rich Felker wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:10:50PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote: >> * Hydro Flask <hydroflask@...mail.com> [2020-07-17 11:57:36 -0700]: >> > In general the user should ensure that cancellation is disabled one way or >> > another when the call is called from the signal handler, or that the call is >> > being done in a AC-safe region. There are a variety of ways to do this as >> > discussed in POSIX. >> >> it's possible to do this, but it's a rare requirement. >> >> futex is not a nice syscall to expose in c. >> >> currently there is disagreement about how to expose it: >> directly the linux api (which is variadic and not very >> typesafe) or separate calls for the useful operations >> (futex_wait, futex_wake, etc but the exact c api is >> less clear then). >> >> because of new time_t abi on 32bit targets, the timeout >> argument to futex is another reason to expose it in c >> instead of allowing users to use it via syscall (if they >> use the libc timespec type with the raw syscall that can >> be broken). >> >> in any case it's better to discuss this on libc-alpha >> since musl and glibc must expose the same api for it >> to be useful and it is harder to get this into glibc. > > CC'ing libc-coord would also be appropriate for this, I think, even if > it is Linux-only and not relevant to the BSD etc folks there. > > I do want to expose futex function but I don't want to end up with > something gratuitously incompatible/conflicting with what glibc ends > up doing. I didn't realize this discussion was more complex. Non-Linux/Glibc is not my use case so I would have proposed "musl_futex()" to make things move quicker but not if adding non-standard calls is something Linux libcs avoid without consensus. Maybe a less complex suggestion is to expose a syscall_cp() function, so you can get cancellation point functionality for any system call. I actually quite like that option. How does that sound?
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