Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API

Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22T13:06:15Z

David Härdeman wrote:
> On Tue, September 18, 2007 13:30, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>> timer_gettime(fd | POSIX_TIMER_FD, .....);
>> If we use the most significant bit for POSIX_TIMER_FD, we should be
>> fine.
>
> I think alternative b) - three new syscalls, sounds better.
>
> The only negatives so far are that it adds more syscalls and that it might
> require code duplication with posix timers. The syscall numbers argument
> seemed not to be very important and the code duplication should be fixable
> by refactoring the code so that more is shared between the two systems (I
> assume).

Yes, I'm inclined to agree with you on both points.

> Overloading file descriptors with flags looks ugly, is there any other
> syscall which does that?

AFAIK there is no other syscall that does that. I agree that it's not very
pretty.

Cheers,

Michael

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