On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 22:38 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > Why did you ignore the existing POSIX timer API? > > The existing POSIX API is a standard and a very good one. Too bad it does > not deliver to files. The timerfd code is, as you can probably read from > the code, a really thin wrapper around the existing hrtimer.c Linux code.
So extend the existing POSIX timer API to deliver expiry events via a fd. -- Nicholas Miell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
