Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [patch 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - timerfd core ... | Date | Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:36:52 +0100 |
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On Friday 16 March 2007 01:22:15 Davide Libenzi wrote: > This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered > though file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with > standard POSIX poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of > supporting the Linux f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with > epoll(2) too.
Half of my comments about signalfd also apply to the code in here.
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