NAME |LIBRARY |SYNOPSIS |DESCRIPTION |RETURN VALUE |ERRORS |STANDARDS |HISTORY |SEE ALSO |COLOPHON | |
FUTEX_WAKE(2const)FUTEX_WAKE(2const)FUTEX_WAKE - wake waiters that are inside FUTEX_WAIT
Standard C library (libc,-lc)
#include <linux/futex.h>/* Definition ofFUTEX_*constants */#include <sys/syscall.h>/* Definition ofSYS_*constants */#include <unistd.h>long syscall(SYS_futex, uint32_t *uaddr, FUTEX_WAKE, uint32_tval);
This operation wakes at mostval of the waiters that are waiting (e.g., insideFUTEX_WAIT(2const)) on the futex word at the addressuaddr. Most commonly,val is specified as either 1 (wake up a single waiter) orINT_MAX(wake up all waiters). No guarantee is provided about which waiters are awoken (e.g., a waiter with a higher scheduling priority is not guaranteed to be awoken in preference to a waiter with a lower priority).
On error, -1 is returned, anderrno is set to indicate the error. On success,FUTEX_WAKEreturns the number of waiters that were woken up.
Seefutex(2).EINVALThe kernel detected an inconsistency between the user-space state atuaddr and the kernel state—that is, it detected a waiter which waits inFUTEX_LOCK_PI(2const) orFUTEX_LOCK_PI2(2const) onuaddr.
Linux.
Linux 2.6.0.
futex(2)
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