From: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattias@virtutech.se>
To: cfriesen@nortel.com
Cc: jakub@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, dwmw2@infradead.org,
drepper@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Add pselect, ppoll system calls.
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 22:08:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506132008.j5DK8t010817@virtutech.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42ADE52E.1040705@nortel.com> (message from Chris Friesen on Mon, 13 Jun 2005 13:57:34 -0600)
>Mattias Engdegård wrote:
>
>> If we can design ppoll() any way we like, which seems likely, I would
>> prefer having the timeout given as an absolute timestamp.
>
>Absolute timestamps are messy though. How do you deal with system time
>changes?
Monotonic clocks are there for exactly that, no?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-13 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-13 19:38 Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-13 19:57 ` Chris Friesen
2005-06-13 20:08 ` Mattias Engdegård [this message]
2005-06-13 20:23 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-06-14 14:07 ` Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-14 14:16 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-06-14 14:42 ` Mattias Engdegård
2005-06-14 14:54 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-06-14 15:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-10 22:58 David Woodhouse
2005-06-12 22:48 ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13 0:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-13 1:16 ` jnf
2005-06-13 3:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-06-13 6:22 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 9:16 ` bert hubert
2005-06-13 9:41 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 11:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-06-13 11:14 ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-06-13 11:24 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 15:38 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:02 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 16:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 16:31 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 21:58 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 22:01 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 16:36 ` Jakub Jelinek
2005-06-15 11:36 ` David Woodhouse
2005-08-05 11:58 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-05 12:49 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-08-25 0:04 ` David Woodhouse
2005-08-25 0:34 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-08-26 6:46 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-06-13 15:35 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-06-13 7:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-13 7:29 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 22:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-06-13 11:15 ` Alan Cox
2005-06-13 11:27 ` David Woodhouse
2005-06-13 15:40 ` Ulrich Drepper
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