Re: [PATCH] add EOWNERDEAD and ENOTRECOVERABLE

Joe Korty <[email protected]> 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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