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From: john@jjdev.com (johnd)
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 10:43:00 -0800
Subject: Bug 12665
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On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 02:19:30PM +0800, Peter Teoh wrote:
> the DELAYTIMER_MAX is for realtime POSIX.
> 
> but Linux is based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Standard_Base,
> which is LSB.
> 
> There is no direct mapping between LSB and POSIX, but perhaps this:
> 
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/time.7.html
> 
> and
> 
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xsh/timer_gettime.html
> 
> Look carefully between the two and you can perhaps find the balancing point
> u will need for implementing this feature.

Thanks for the explanation.  I was just looking at bugs in bugzilla that
I could actually reproduce.  I'm just getting started with kernel
programming and am looking for bugs I can observe.