Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...

Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10T06:43:46Z

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.

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Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>