What Madness Is This?
On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Rusty Russell w > > The method is: open /dev/futex STOP! What madness is this? You have a damn mutex system call, c Do we create pipes by opening /dev/
A cropped terminal or email-style screenshot shows a technical discussion about using `/dev/futex`, followed by an emphatic reaction: “STOP! What madness is this?” The joke is the exaggerated disbelief at treating a synchronization primitive like a device file, presented as an early example of prompting or instructing programmers through blunt text-based feedback.
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