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

Davide Libenzi
2007-03-11T03:42:13Z

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> (That said, using "struct itimerspec" might be a good idea. That would
> also obviate the need for TFD_TIMER_SEQ, since an itimerspec automatically
> has both "base" and "incremental" parts).

But TFD_TIMER_SEQ is a simple auto-rearm case of TFD_TIMER_REL. So the
timespec is sufficent too (in all three cases we just need *one* time).
Actually, the only place where I can find the itimerspec usefull, is
indeed with TFD_TIMER_SEQ. In cases where you want you clock starting at a
given time (it_value) *and* with the given frequency (it_interval).

- Davide