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

Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10T21:58:32Z

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:44 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> >
> > That's what the sigevent structure is for -- to describe how events
> > should be signaled to userspace, whether by signal delivery, thread
> > creation, or queuing to event completion ports. If if you think
> > extending it would be bad, I can show you the line in POSIX where it
> > encourages the contrary.
>
> I'm sorry, but by pointing to the POSIX timer stuff, you're just making
> your argument weaker.
>
> POSIX timers are a horrible crock and over-designed to be a union of
> everything that has ever been done. Nasty. We had tons of bugs in the
> original setup because they were so damn nasty.
>

Care to elaborate on why they're a horrible crock?

And are the bugs fixed? If so, why replace them? They work now.

> I'd rather look at just about *anything* else for good design than from
> some of the abortions that are posix-timers.
>
> Linus

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