From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.linux.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Bernd Eckenfels" <ecki@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@redhat.com>,
geoff@gclare.org.uk, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@lst.de>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
vda.linux@googlemail.com,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Lee Schermerhorn" <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>,
"David Härdeman" <david@hardeman.nu>,
mtk-manpages@gmx.net
Subject: Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:07:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517f3f820709220907l4c4e693di3df6942bdca5bcfa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IZ62P-0000EX-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
Hello Bernd,
Please don't trim the CC list when replying! I nearly did not see
your reply, and others will have missed it also.
On 9/22/07, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote:
> In article <46F514C9.5010208@gmx.net> you wrote:
> > 1. This design stretches the POSIX timers API in strange
> > ways.
>
> Maybe it is possible to reimplement the POSIX API in usermode using the
> kernel's FD implementation?
It's a clever idea... Without thinking on it too long, I'm not sure
whether or not there might be some details which would make this
difficult.
> (and drop the posix support from kernel)
However we couldn't drop POSIX support from the kernel, because that
would break the ABI.
Cheers,
Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-22 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-18 7:27 Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 7:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 8:05 ` David Härdeman
2007-09-18 9:01 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 9:27 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 9:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 9:30 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 9:42 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 11:08 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 11:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-18 13:13 ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 13:03 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-18 16:51 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 13:12 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-22 14:32 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2007-09-22 16:07 ` Michael Kerrisk [this message]
2007-09-22 17:05 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:37 ` David Härdeman
2007-09-22 17:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 21:07 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-22 21:26 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 23:21 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 17:33 ` Michael Kerrisk
2007-09-23 18:33 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 18:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-09-23 19:03 ` Michael Kerrisk
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