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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - timerfd core ...
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:36:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703172236.52865.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <send-serie.davidel@xmailserver.org.9367.1174004538.6>

On Friday 16 March 2007 01:22:15 Davide Libenzi wrote:
> This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered
> though file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with
> standard POSIX poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of
> supporting the Linux f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with
> epoll(2) too.

Half of my comments about signalfd also apply to the code in here.

	Arnd <><

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-17 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-16  0:22 [patch 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - timerfd core Davide Libenzi
2007-03-16  7:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-03-16 16:02   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-17 21:36 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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