Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:03:00 +0200 | From | Michael Kerrisk <> | Subject | Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API |
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Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > >> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: >> >>> I applied this patch against 2.6.27-rc7, and wired up the syscalls as shown >>> in the definitions below. When I ran the the program below, my system >>> immediately froze. Can you try it on your system please. >> There's an hrtimer_init() missing in timerfd_create(). I'll refactor the >> patch. > > There's the case of a timerfd_gettime return status when the timerfd has > not been set yet (ie, soon after a timerfd_create), to handle. > Current way is to return an (itimerspec) { 0, 0 }. Ok?
Seems reasonable. In the analogous situation, the POSIX timers API returns a structure containing all zeros, at least on Linux. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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