linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703092235430.28135@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Fri, 9 Mar 2007 22:38:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v1 - timerfd core ...

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:

> Why did you ignore the existing POSIX timer API?

The existing POSIX API is a standard and a very good one. Too bad it does 
not deliver to files. The timerfd code is, as you can probably read from 
the code, a really thin wrapper around the existing hrtimer.c Linux code.


- Davide


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