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From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:43:39 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1173509019.3108.4.camel@entropy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703092235430.28135@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 22:38 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> 
> > Why did you ignore the existing POSIX timer API?
> 
> The existing POSIX API is a standard and a very good one. Too bad it does 
> not deliver to files. The timerfd code is, as you can probably read from 
> the code, a really thin wrapper around the existing hrtimer.c Linux code.

So extend the existing POSIX timer API to deliver expiry events via a
fd.

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-10  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-09 23:41 [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10  6:33 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10  6:38   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10  6:43     ` Nicholas Miell [this message]
2007-03-10  6:53       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10  7:09         ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10  7:36           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 19:52             ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 20:41               ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 21:01                 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 21:44                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-10 21:56                     ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 22:42                       ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11  0:25                         ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-11  0:35                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11  1:49                             ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-11  1:57                               ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-11  2:09                                 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-11  5:31                               ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11  6:18                                 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-11 16:29                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11  3:42                         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-11  5:35                           ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11  5:44                             ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 22:30                   ` Davide Libenzi

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