From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:44:24 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703101340550.10330@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173560473.2958.23.camel@entropy>
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:
>
> That's what the sigevent structure is for -- to describe how events
> should be signaled to userspace, whether by signal delivery, thread
> creation, or queuing to event completion ports. If if you think
> extending it would be bad, I can show you the line in POSIX where it
> encourages the contrary.
I'm sorry, but by pointing to the POSIX timer stuff, you're just making
your argument weaker.
POSIX timers are a horrible crock and over-designed to be a union of
everything that has ever been done. Nasty. We had tons of bugs in the
original setup because they were so damn nasty.
I'd rather look at just about *anything* else for good design than from
some of the abortions that are posix-timers.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-10 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-09 23:41 Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 6:33 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 6:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 6:43 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 6:53 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 7:09 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 7:36 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 19:52 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 20:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 21:01 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2007-03-10 21:56 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-10 22:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11 0:25 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-11 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11 1:49 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-11 1:57 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-11 2:09 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-11 5:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11 6:18 ` Nicholas Miell
2007-03-11 16:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11 3:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-11 5:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-11 5:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-03-10 22:30 ` Davide Libenzi
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