robust futex heap support patch

There is a new patch, patch-2.6.14-rt15-rf1, that adds support for robust and priority inheriting

pthread_mutexes on the 'heap'.

The previous patches only supported either file based pthread_mutexes or mmapped anonymous memory based pthread_mutexes. This patch allows pthread_mutexes

to be 'malloc'ed while using the PTHREAD_MUTEX_ROBUST_NP attribute
or PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT attribute.

The patch can be found at:

http://source.mvista.com/~dsingleton

David

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