Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API

Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23T18:41:43Z

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>
> > I applied this patch against 2.6.27-rc7, and wired up the syscalls as shown
> > in the definitions below. When I ran the the program below, my system
> > immediately froze. Can you try it on your system please.
>
> There's an hrtimer_init() missing in timerfd_create(). I'll refactor the
> patch.

There's the case of a timerfd_gettime return status when the timerfd has
not been set yet (ie, soon after a timerfd_create), to handle.
Current way is to return an (itimerspec) { 0, 0 }. Ok?

- Davide