linux-kernel - Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

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Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 14:47:23 +0300
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
Cc:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Chase Venters <chase.venters@...entec.com>,
	Johann Borck <johann.borck@...sedata.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alexander Viro <aviro@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:38:50PM +0300, Michael Tokarev (mjt@....msk.ru) wrote:
> Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> I think we have lived with relative timeouts for so long, it would be
> >> unusual to change now.  select(2), poll(2), epoll_wait(2) all take
> >> relative timeouts.
> > 
> > I'm not talking about always using absolute timeouts.
> > 
> > I'm saying the timeout parameter should be a struct timespec* and then
> > the flags word could have a flag meaning "this is an absolute timeout".
> >  I.e., enable both uses,, even make relative timeouts the default. This
> > is what the modern POSIX interfaces do, too, see clock_nanosleep.
> 
> 
> Can't the argument be something like u64 instead of struct timespec,
> regardless of this discussion (relative vs absolute)?

It is right now :)

> /mjt

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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