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From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: rdunlap@xenotime.net, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hch@lst.de,
	geoff@gclare.org.uk, tglx@linutronix.de, david@hardeman.nu,
	drepper@redhat.com, subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com, corbet@lwn.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Man page for revised timerfd API
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 12:35:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070927103531.184550@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709261038550.25778@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>

Davide,

A further question: what is the expected behavior in the
following scenario:

1. Create a timerfd and arm it.
2. Wait until M timer expirations have occurred
3. Modify the settings of the timer
4. Wait for N further timer expirations have occurred
5. read() from the timerfd

Does the buffer returned by the read() contain the value
N or (M+N)?  In other words, should modifying the timer
settings reset the expiration count to zero?

Cheers,

Michael
-- 
Michael Kerrisk
maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-27 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-26  7:12 Man page for revised timerfd API Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-26 18:06 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-26 21:13   ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-27 10:35   ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
2007-09-27 16:45     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-10-03  6:50       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-10-03  8:14         ` Matti Aarnio
2007-10-04 18:19           ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-27  8:20 ` Geoff Clare
2007-09-27 10:50   ` Michael Kerrisk
     [not found] <20070927072726.50350@gmx.net>
2007-09-27 16:42 ` Davide Libenzi

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