linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3

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Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:16:14 -0700 (PDT)
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>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ...

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote:

> You should probably make it behave like the other things that use
> itimerspec, just to avoid confusion -- i.e. timers are relative by
> default, there's a flag that makes them absolute, they expire when
> it_value specifies, and repeat every it_interval nanoseconds if
> it_interval is non-zero.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> int timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags, const struct timespec
> *utmr);
> 
> with TFD_TIMER_ABS in flags making the timer absolute instead of
> relative (and no TFD_TIMER_REL or TFD_TIMER_SEQ at all).

Sounds sane to me. Will do...


- Davide


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