From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
drepper@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:40:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <32394.1187188807@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:11:45 +0200." <46BB8311.6040702@gmx.net>
Sorry for the late commentary...as I looked this over, one thing popped
into my mind....
> b) Make the 'clockid' immutable: it can only be set
> if 'ufd' is -1 -- that is, on the timerfd() call that
> first creates a timer.
timerfd() is looking increasingly like a multiplexor system call in
disguise. There is no form of invocation which uses all of the
arguments. Are we sure we wouldn't rather have something like:
timerfd_open(clock);
timerfd_adjust(fd, new_time, old_time);
?
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-15 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-23 6:32 Problems with timerfd() Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-23 6:38 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 6:42 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23 8:02 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-25 18:18 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-25 22:12 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07 6:55 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-07 7:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07 9:14 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-09 21:11 ` [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-13 23:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-15 14:40 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2007-07-23 16:55 ` Problems with timerfd() Ray Lee
2007-07-24 7:40 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-24 15:22 ` Ray Lee
2007-07-24 15:56 ` Michael Kerrisk
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-25 6:41 [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-30 12:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-04 8:03 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-04 8:18 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-04 8:24 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-04 15:25 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-04 15:39 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-04 22:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-04 20:49 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-04 22:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-05 0:08 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-05 12:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-05 16:14 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-05 16:23 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-05 19:57 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-05 22:50 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-05 23:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-06 6:58 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-06 23:37 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-10 3:15 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-05 12:12 ` Denys Vlasenko
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