From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] poll(2) timeout values
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 17:15:56 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1131642956.20099.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437375DE.1070603@redhat.com>
On Iau, 2005-11-10 at 11:31 -0500, Peter Staubach wrote:
> Clearly, the timeout calculations problem can be fixed without changing
> the arguments to the sys_poll() routine. However, it is cleaner to fix
> it this way by ensuring the sizes and types of arguments match.
There really is no need for the kernel API to match the userspace one,
many of our others differ between the syscall interface which is most
definitely 'exported' in one sense and the POSIX interface which is
defined by libc, posix and the LSB etc
No argument about the timeout fix.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-10 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-10 16:31 Peter Staubach
2005-11-10 17:15 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-11-10 21:02 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-11-11 20:19 ` Peter Staubach
2005-11-11 22:02 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <a36005b50511101049vf20cde5m9385c433e18dcd2d@mail.gmail.com>
2005-11-10 22:33 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <a36005b50511101649l744f78c1i76133434be7304e8@mail.gmail.com>
2005-11-11 13:16 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-11 13:17 ` Peter Staubach
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