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| author | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> | 2017-02-05 18:36:06 +0530 |
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| committer | Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> | 2017-02-05 20:50:22 +0530 |
| commit | 0cea3587d3270eeb8f0649ab1ee9eda6919cc8e1 (patch) | |
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| parent | 53aa04a86c10f49b7481e73d2ca045ecd6ed2df7 (diff) | |
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Add missing NEWS items
Add NEWS items for the two new pthreads implementations, i.e. the condition variables algorithms and the pthread_rwlock algorithms.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 27841fd548..287c8eb9c8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -189,6 +189,14 @@ Version 2.25 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has instructions on adding new tunables to the library. +* A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in + the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering + guarantees. + +* A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more + scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to + make state changes. + Security related changes: * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which |