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Message-ID: <517f3f820709220907l4c4e693di3df6942bdca5bcfa@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:07:14 +0200
From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.linux.lists@...il.com>
To: "Bernd Eckenfels" <ecki@...a.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...hat.com>, geoff@...are.org.uk,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@....de>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@....net>,
"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>, vda.linux@...glemail.com,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
"Lee Schermerhorn" <Lee.Schermerhorn@...com>,
"David Härdeman" <david@...deman.nu>,
mtk-manpages@....net
Subject: Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API
Hello Bernd,
Please don't trim the CC list when replying! I nearly did not see
your reply, and others will have missed it also.
On 9/22/07, Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@...a.inka.de> wrote:
> In article <46F514C9.5010208@....net> you wrote:
> > 1. This design stretches the POSIX timers API in strange
> > ways.
>
> Maybe it is possible to reimplement the POSIX API in usermode using the
> kernel's FD implementation?
It's a clever idea... Without thinking on it too long, I'm not sure
whether or not there might be some details which would make this
difficult.
> (and drop the posix support from kernel)
However we couldn't drop POSIX support from the kernel, because that
would break the ABI.
Cheers,
Michael
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