linux-kernel - Re: Man page for revised timerfd API

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Date:	Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:42:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@....net>
cc:	rdunlap@...otime.net, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	hch@....de, geoff@...are.org.uk, tglx@...utronix.de,
	david@...deman.nu, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	subrata@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, corbet@....net,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tristan Wibberley <maihem-nn1@...hem.org>
Subject: Re: Man page for revised timerfd API

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:

> Hi Davide,
> 
> A follow up to the man page text.  Does passing a timerfd file
> descriptor via a Unix domain socket to another process do the
> expected thing?  That is, the receiving process will be able to 
> read from the file descriptor in order to obtain notification
> of timer expirations that are occurring for the process
> that sent the file descriptor, right?

Yup.



- Davide


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