Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:44:24 -0800 (PST) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ... |
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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.
I'd rather look at just about *anything* else for good design than from some of the abortions that are posix-timers.
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