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diff --git a/man2/futex.2 b/man2/futex.2 index 8683d62fa1..fe94c2d3ff 100644 --- a/man2/futex.2 +++ b/man2/futex.2 @@ -1512,6 +1512,10 @@ This system call is Linux-specific. .SH NOTES Glibc does not provide a wrapper for this system call; call it using .BR syscall (2). + +Various higher-level programming abstractions are implemented via futexes, +including POSIX threads mutexes and condition variables, +as well as POSIX semaphores. .\" TODO FIXME(Torvald) Above, we cite this section and claim it contains .\" details on the synchronization semantics; add the C11 equivalents .\" here (or whatever we find consensus for). |