Re: [PATCH] remove timerd() syscall number

["Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>]

> > I hope I've done this right...  This patch, against 2.6.23-rc6,
> > removes the timerfd() syscall (which in any case had a bug
> > on its 2.6.22 release) from all architectures, so that we
> > can have some breathing space to think about the API design.
> > All of the existing timerfd() code is left intact.
> 
> I think a minimally-intrusive implementation would be
> 
> --- a/fs/timerfd.c~a
> +++ a/fs/timerfd.c
> @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_timerfd(int ufd, int
>  	struct inode *inode;
>  	struct itimerspec ktmr;
>  
> +	return -ENOSYS;
> +
>  	if (copy_from_user(&ktmr, utmr, sizeof(ktmr)))
>  		return -EFAULT;
>  
> _
> 
> or, better,
> 
> --- a/init/Kconfig~a
> +++ a/init/Kconfig
> @@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ config SIGNALFD
>  
>  config TIMERFD
>  	bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED
> +	depends on BROKEN
>  	select ANON_INODES
>  	default y
>  	help
> _

Cough!  Right then.  I take it you'll apply one of those then?
-- 
Michael Kerrisk
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