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From: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	geoff@gclare.org.uk, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	vda.linux@googlemail.com,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
	david@hardeman.nu
Subject: Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:03:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F6B864.9080902@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709231138260.22989@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>>
>>> I applied this patch against 2.6.27-rc7, and wired up the syscalls as shown
>>> in the definitions below.  When I ran the the program below, my system
>>> immediately froze.  Can you try it on your system please.
>> There's an hrtimer_init() missing in timerfd_create(). I'll refactor the 
>> patch.
> 
> There's the case of a timerfd_gettime return status when the timerfd has 
> not been set yet (ie, soon after a timerfd_create), to handle.
> Current way is to return an (itimerspec) { 0, 0 }. Ok?

Seems reasonable.  In the analogous situation, the POSIX timers API 
returns a structure containing all zeros, at least on Linux.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-23 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-18  7:27 RFC: A revised timerfd API Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  7:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  8:05   ` David Härdeman
2007-09-18  9:01     ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  9:27       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18  9:10   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18  9:30     ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18  9:42       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 11:08         ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 11:30           ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 13:13             ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 13:03               ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 16:51 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 13:12   ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 14:32     ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-09-22 16:07       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 17:05         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:37         ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 17:10     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 21:07     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 21:26       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:21         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 17:33       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-23 18:33         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 18:41           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 19:03             ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]

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