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

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Message-ID: <456443AA.7060106@garzik.org>
Date:	Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:33:46 -0500
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
CC:	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@....mipt.ru>,
	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.

Michael Tokarev wrote:
> Can't the argument be something like u64 instead of struct timespec,
> regardless of this discussion (relative vs absolute)?


Newer syscalls (ppoll, pselect) take struct timespec, which is a 
reasonable, modern form of the timeout argument...

	Jeff


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