Messages in this thread Patches in this message | | | Date | Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:43:15 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] remove timerd() syscall number |
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:58:58 +0200 Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> wrote:
> I hope I've done this right... This patch, against 2.6.23-rc6, > removes the timerfd() syscall (which in any case had a bug > on its 2.6.22 release) from all architectures, so that we > can have some breathing space to think about the API design. > All of the existing timerfd() code is left intact.
I think a minimally-intrusive implementation would be
--- a/fs/timerfd.c~a +++ a/fs/timerfd.c @@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ asmlinkage long sys_timerfd(int ufd, int struct inode *inode; struct itimerspec ktmr; + return -ENOSYS; + if (copy_from_user(&ktmr, utmr, sizeof(ktmr))) return -EFAULT; _ or, better,
--- a/init/Kconfig~a +++ a/init/Kconfig @@ -491,6 +491,7 @@ config SIGNALFD config TIMERFD bool "Enable timerfd() system call" if EMBEDDED + depends on BROKEN select ANON_INODES default y help _ - 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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