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From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
	drepper@redhat.com, stable@kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:40:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32394.1187188807@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 09 Aug 2007 23:11:45 +0200." <46BB8311.6040702@gmx.net>

Sorry for the late commentary...as I looked this over, one thing popped
into my mind....

> b) Make the 'clockid' immutable: it can only be set
>    if 'ufd' is -1 -- that is, on the timerfd() call that
>    first creates a timer.

timerfd() is looking increasingly like a multiplexor system call in
disguise.  There is no form of invocation which uses all of the
arguments.  Are we sure we wouldn't rather have something like:

	timerfd_open(clock);
	timerfd_adjust(fd, new_time, old_time);

?

jon

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-08-15 14:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-23  6:32 Problems with timerfd() Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-23  6:38 ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23  6:42   ` Andrew Morton
2007-07-23  8:02     ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-25 18:18   ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-25 22:12     ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07  6:55       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-07  7:36         ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-07  9:14           ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-09 21:11         ` [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-13 23:34           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-15 14:40           ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2007-07-23 16:55 ` Problems with timerfd() Ray Lee
2007-07-24  7:40   ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-07-24 15:22     ` Ray Lee
2007-07-24 15:56       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-25  6:41 [PATCH] Revised timerfd() interface Michael Kerrisk
2007-08-30 12:01 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-04  8:03   ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-04  8:18     ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-04  8:24       ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-04 15:25       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-04 15:39         ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-04 22:41           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-04 20:49         ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-04 22:44           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-05  0:08             ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-05 12:02               ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-05 16:14               ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-05 16:23                 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-05 19:57                   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-05 22:50                     ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-05 23:45                       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-06  6:58                         ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-06 23:37                           ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-10  3:15                             ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-05 12:12         ` Denys Vlasenko

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