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From: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
To: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, robustmutexes@lists.osdl.org,
	george@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] A more general timeout specification
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 09:39:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050519133903.GA9473@tsunami.ccur.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17035.48794.636650.724153@sodium.jf.intel.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:15:54PM -0700, Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:

> The main reason why we are asking for this is that timeouts in POSIX
> calls are always specified in an absolute form. Because most system
> calls take it in a relative form, glibc has to call the kernel twice

Also, it is quite evil for a library to internally convert a user-specified
end time into relative time .. this causes end-time drift.

Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-19 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-18 20:15 [RFC] A more general timeout specification Joe Korty
2005-05-18 22:15 ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2005-05-19 13:39   ` Joe Korty [this message]
2005-05-18 23:49 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-19 13:24   ` Joe Korty
2005-05-19 17:02   ` George Anzinger
2005-05-19 18:35     ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2005-05-20 19:05     ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-21  1:12       ` George Anzinger
2005-07-29  1:52 ` FW: " Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2005-08-22 22:56   ` john stultz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-01  0:00 Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky
2005-09-01  9:19 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 13:48   ` Joe Korty
2005-09-01 15:18     ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-01 21:20       ` Kyle Moffett

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