linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v6

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Message-Id: <200703172236.52865.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2007 22:36:52 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
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 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - timerfd core ...

On Friday 16 March 2007 01:22:15 Davide Libenzi wrote:
> This patch introduces a new system call for timers events delivered
> though file descriptors. This allows timer event to be used with
> standard POSIX poll(2), select(2) and read(2). As a consequence of
> supporting the Linux f_op->poll subsystem, they can be used with
> epoll(2) too.

Half of my comments about signalfd also apply to the code in here.

	Arnd <><
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