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Re: Atomic operations



On Friday 19 November 2010 19:59:43 T. Alex Chen wrote:
> I post the following message on debian-devel mailing list but someone says
> it is the wrong one so I post it here again.

Yes, debian-devel is for discussion around the developement of Debian, 
particularly updates to policy and release goals.

Development of software is largely distribution independent, so language-
specific groups are generally better.  However, something like this (what 
package is X in?) is normal fare for a user-oriented list, so debian-user is 
quite appropriate.

> I want to do atomic operation and find there is already such implementation
> in Linux, e.g. atomic_add, atomic_set, atomic_cmpset, etc, after I google
> on the Web. I find a libatomic-ops-dev package and install it. But there
> is still no man page after the installation. Did I install the right
> package? Where can I get the man page of these atomic operations?

bss@dellbuntu:~% apt-file search atomic_add
freebsd-manpages: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add.9freebsd.gz
libsilc-1.1-2-dev: /usr/share/doc/libsilc-1.1-2-dev/toolkit/silcatomic-
silc_atomic_add_int16.html
libsilc-1.1-2-dev: /usr/share/doc/libsilc-1.1-2-dev/toolkit/silcatomic-
silc_atomic_add_int32.html
libsilc-1.1-2-dev: /usr/share/doc/libsilc-1.1-2-dev/toolkit/silcatomic-
silc_atomic_add_int8.html
libsilc-dev: /usr/share/doc/libsilc-dev/toolkit/silcatomic-
silc_atomic_add_int16.html
libsilc-dev: /usr/share/doc/libsilc-dev/toolkit/silcatomic-
silc_atomic_add_int32.html
libsilc-dev: /usr/share/doc/libsilc-dev/toolkit/silcatomic-
silc_atomic_add_int8.html
libstdc++6-4.4-doc: /usr/share/man/man3/std::__atomic0::atomic_address.3cxx.gz
libstdc++6-4.4-doc: /usr/share/man/man3/std::__atomic2::atomic_address.3cxx.gz
libstdc++6-4.5-doc: /usr/share/man/man3/__atomic0_atomic_address.3cxx.gz
libstdc++6-4.5-doc: /usr/share/man/man3/__atomic2_atomic_address.3cxx.gz
linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_negative.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_return.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.26: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_unless.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.32: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.32: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_negative.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.32: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_return.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.32: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_unless.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.36: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.36: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_negative.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.36: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_return.9.gz
linux-manual-2.6.36: /usr/share/man/man9/atomic_add_unless.9.gz
linux-patch-lustre: /usr/src/kernel-patches/lustre/patches/atomic_add_return-
sles9.patch

I would say you probably want the linux-manual-2.6.26 package.
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