Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

Jari Sundell
2006-08-23T08:22:19Z

On 8/23/06, Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> wrote:
> void * in structure exported to userspace is forbidden.

Only void * I'm seeing belongs to the user, (udata) perhaps you are
talking of something different?

> long in syscall requires wrapper in per-arch code (although that
> workaround _is_ there, it does not mean that broken interface should
> be used).
> poll uses millisecods - it is perfectly ok.

The kernel is there to hide those ugly implementation details from the
user, so I don't care that much about a workaround being required in
some cases. More important, IMHO is consistency with the POSIX system
calls.

I guess as long as you use usec, at least it won't be a pain to use.

Rakshasa