linux-kernel - Re: [patch 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v9

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0704011007570.26331@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>
Date:	Sun, 1 Apr 2007 10:08:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
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 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v9 - timerfd core ...

On Sun, 1 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:

> I do not know about DoS on timers (did not follow the thread), but I could 
> easily implement it here, by capping the counter to some value, and return 
> POLLERR in poll().

For capping I mean, I won't re-arm the timer if ticks exceeded it ...


- Davide


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