From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 01:44:45 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: Port of the posix timers to IA64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 15:12:43 +0100, Eric Piel said: Eric> However I still don't feel confortable with the port because I Eric> had to change the size of timer_t from int to long. I did so Eric> just because the posix timers functions are based on the Eric> longest integer available (using BITS_PER_LONG). But it's not Eric> so convenient because then the include files of the system Eric> also have to be updated (include/bits/types.h). In addition Eric> 2^24 ids available (when using 32 bits) are already a lot. Eric> Do you think I should try to care about compatibility and Eric> change the posix timers functions to work on ints or should I Eric> just use longs and update the include files? I'd recommend to take this up with the glibc maintainers. As far as I know, the Linux kernel doesn't define timer_t anywhere at this point. I didn't see Single UNIX Spec saying anything about the size of timer_t, but then again, I didn't look very hard. --david