From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: "Robert H. de Vries" <rhdv@rhdv.cistron.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1
Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 15:33:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010203153310.B30376@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01020313391300.01904@calvin>
In-Reply-To: <01020313391300.01904@calvin>; from rhdv@rhdv.cistron.nl on Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 01:39:13PM +0100
Robert H. de Vries wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have
> up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process.
Why is there a limit? With such a small limit, any library that wants
to use its own private timers is going to have to agree a way to
multiplex with other libraries, and you're back to setitimer().
-- Jamie
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-02-03 12:39 Robert H. de Vries
2001-02-03 14:33 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2001-02-03 17:47 ` Linus Torvalds
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