On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > The four designs are: > > a) A multiplexing timerfd() system call. > b) Creating three syscalls analogous to the POSIX timers API (i.e., > timerfd_create/timerfd_settime/timerfd_gettime). > c) Creating a simplified timerfd() system call that is integrated > with the POSIX timers API. > d) Extending the POSIX timers API to support the timerfd concept.
If you really want to shoot yourself in your foot, I'd pick bullet B. Bullet A makes me sea-sick, and bullets C and D, well, let's leave POSIX APIs being *POSIX* APIs. Once you remove all the "ifs" and "elses" that resulted from your previous bullet A multiplexing implementation, timerfd_gettime and timerfd_settime should result in being pretty slick. I still think we could have survived w/out all this done inside the kernel though. - Davide - 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/
