From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751553AbXCQVga (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:36:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751615AbXCQVga (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:36:30 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.183]:65047 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751553AbXCQVga (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:36:30 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Davide Libenzi Subject: Re: [patch 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - timerfd core ... Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:36:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200703172236.52865.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19gkkXmftfDkoRQApWpg9ykdULoobXUGchVW4G Csp7/0UCZg9yNU32aqM9JDK4Yo5YENSufiz++67XgRE1JIXQe/ VPSXFmMPlWXIqo6zBv1KA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 16 March 2007 01:22:15 Davide Libenzi wrote: > This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered > though file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with > standard POSIX poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of > supporting the Linux f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with > epoll(2) too. Half of my comments about signalfd also apply to the code in here. Arnd <><