Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

Ulrich Drepper
2006-11-27T18:36:47Z

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.

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