Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

David Miller
2006-11-27T18:49:54Z

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:36:06 -0800

> David Miller wrote:
> > Now we'll have to have a compat layer for 32-bit/64-bit environments
> > thanks to POSIX timers, which is rediculious.
>
> We already have compat_sys_timer_create. It should be sufficient just
> to add the conversion (if anything new is needed) there. The pointer
> value can be passed to userland in one or two int fields, I don't really
> care. When reporting the event to the user code we cannot just point
> into the ring buffer anyway. So while copying the data we can rewrite
> it if necessary. I see no need to complicate the code more than it
> already is.

Ok, as long as that thing doesn't end up in the ring buffer entry
data structure, that's where the real troubles would be.