Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:16:14 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ... |
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On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> You should probably make it behave like the other things that use > itimerspec, just to avoid confusion -- i.e. timers are relative by > default, there's a flag that makes them absolute, they expire when > it_value specifies, and repeat every it_interval nanoseconds if > it_interval is non-zero. > > i.e. > > int timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags, const struct timespec > *utmr); > > with TFD_TIMER_ABS in flags making the timer absolute instead of > relative (and no TFD_TIMER_REL or TFD_TIMER_SEQ at all).
Sounds sane to me. Will do...
- Davide
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