linux-kernel - Re: A better interface, perhaps: a timed signal flag

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Date:	Fri, 28 Jul 2006 17:41:25 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	a.zummo@...ertech.it, jg@...edesktop.org
Subject: Re: A better interface, perhaps: a timed signal flag

Ar Gwe, 2006-07-28 am 10:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Theodore Tso:
> Good point, and limiting this facility to one such timeout per
> task_struct seems like a reasonable restriction. 

Why is this any better than using a thread or signal handler ? From the
implementation side its certainly horrible - we will be trying to write
user pages from an IRQ event. Far better to let the existing thread code
deal with it.


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