Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:07:14 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk" <> | Subject | Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API |
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Hello Bernd,
Please don't trim the CC list when replying! I nearly did not see your reply, and others will have missed it also.
On 9/22/07, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de> wrote: > In article <46F514C9.5010208@gmx.net> you wrote: > > 1. This design stretches the POSIX timers API in strange > > ways. > > Maybe it is possible to reimplement the POSIX API in usermode using the > kernel's FD implementation?
It's a clever idea... Without thinking on it too long, I'm not sure whether or not there might be some details which would make this difficult.
> (and drop the posix support from kernel)
However we couldn't drop POSIX support from the kernel, because that would break the ABI.
Cheers,
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