Hi,

El Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:30:54AM +0530 Anupam Kapoor ha dit:

> i am trying out the recently introduced timerfd syscall which folds
> timer-events into the familiar select/poll style event handling. i am
> using "Linux virat 2.6.23-gentoo-r9" for this. i am using the userland
> program that is available here
> "http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test.c";
> 
> any ideas on the base version of the kernel where this is implemented
> ? or gentle suggestion about what i might be doing wrong (more likely)

the first kernel with timerfd support was 2.6.22. in 2.6.23 it has
been disabled due to complaints about its inferface. the just released
2.6.25 comes with a revised API (http://lwn.net/Articles/260172/)

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