Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCHv6 0/7] system time changes notification | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Date | Thu, 18 Nov 2010 15:08:20 +0200 |
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On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 12:42 -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > > > > But what you folks really want for this stuff is an extension to > > > timerfd as you want to be able to poll, right? > > > > > > So what about the following: > > > > > > Add a new flag TDF_NOTIFY_CLOCK_WAS_SET to the timerfd flags. Now this > > > flag adds the timer to a separate list, which gets woken up when the > > > clock is set. > > > > > > No new syscall, just a few lines of code in fs/timerfd.c and > > > clock_was_set(). > > > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > Something like this (sans ugliness)? > > Oh, gosh, please. This is interface-multiplexing-a-palooza. > It should be decided if the feature makes sense, and then have proper > interface, instead of multiplexing unrelated insterfaces. > This is a sort of system-event-report pattern. What is wrong with using a > netlink-based transport for those kind of things?
Could you please explain in more details what is the problem?
-- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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