Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ... | | From | Nicholas Miell <> | | Date | Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:56:36 -0800 |
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On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:44 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > 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. >
Care to elaborate on why they're a horrible crock?
And are the bugs fixed? If so, why replace them? They work now.
> I'd rather look at just about *anything* else for good design than from > some of the abortions that are posix-timers. > > Linus
-- Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
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