Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

Ulrich Drepper
2006-11-27T18:21:54Z

Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
>> We need to pass the data in the sigev_value meember of the struct
>> sigevent structure passed to timer_create to the caller. I don't see it
>> being done here nor when the timer is created. Do I miss something?
>> The sigev_value value should be stored in the user/ptr member of struct
>> ukevent.
>
> sigev_value was stored in k_itimer structure, I just do not know where
> to put it in the ukevent provided to userspace - it can be placed in
> pointer value if you like.

sigev_value is a union and the largest element is a pointer. So,
transporting the pointer value is sufficient and it should be passed up
to the user in the ptr member of struct ukevent.

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