Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: A better interface, perhaps: a timed signal flag | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:41:25 +0100 |
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Ar Gwe, 2006-07-28 am 10:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Theodore Tso: > Good point, and limiting this facility to one such timeout per > task_struct seems like a reasonable restriction.
Why is this any better than using a thread or signal handler ? From the implementation side its certainly horrible - we will be trying to write user pages from an IRQ event. Far better to let the existing thread code deal with it.
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