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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:34:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> having looked at threading libraries i can tell you that any library
> writer who cares about performance would use a futex for exit
> notification.

Oh, good. If it turns out that even pthreads wants the futex, let's just
do it that way. Pls send in a patch once you have something tested ready,
ok?

Much cleaner.

		Linus

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