Comment 12 for bug 1085342

(In reply to comment #6)
> I would hesitate to try fixing this without also looking at and possibly fixing
> bug #12875. The whole sequence number wakeup thing for condition variables is
> fundamentally broken in NPTL and needs to be fixed.

How so? You seem to see issues that go beyond bug #12875 (which I don't see as being a bug currently). If so, please link to them here.

> Basically the issue is that
> the current code is over-engineered to avoid spurious wakeups, but in the
> process it suppresses some non-spurious wakeups...

I'm not aware of any lost wake-ups for non-PI cond vars. If you have provided an alternative implementation proposal in the past, could you link to it when making such comments please? If you haven't but have a proposal now, please link to it here or post to glibc-alpha.