Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 14 Feb 2003 16:00:03 -0800 (PST) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: Synchronous signal delivery.. |
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On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > One of the reasons for the "flags" field (which is not unused) was because > > > I thought it might have extensions for things like alarms etc. > > > > I was thinking more like : > > > > int timerfd(int timeout, int oneshot); > > It could be a separate system call, ...
I would personally like it a lot to have timer events available on pollable fds. Am I alone in this ?
> but since the infrastructure is hopefully identical (most of the sigfd() > code is actually creating the fs infrastructure to get an inode with the > information), it should share a lot of the paths.
About that, I think we should make an utility function to be shared among all the code that need to create "fake" inodes to expose fds. Right now many component ( pipes, futexes, epoll, ... ) uses the basic code, sharing the same needs, and duplicating basically the same code.
- Davide
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