linux-kernel - Re: Where is the new timerfd?

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Message-ID: <cfd18e0f0711231114l33f3c4b8t9a6dbadaf0e9b0a3@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:14:54 +0100
From:	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@...glemail.com>
To:	"Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@...il.com>
Cc:	"Davide Libenzi" <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Where is the new timerfd?

On Nov 23, 2007 7:38 PM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com> wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2007 9:29 AM, Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> wrote:
> > Yes, it's disabled, and yes, I'll repost today ...
>
> I haven't seen the patch and don't feel like searching.  So I say it
> here: please mak sure you add a flags parameter to the system call
> itself (instead of adding it on as for eventfd and signalfd).  We need
> to be able to use O_CLOEXEC some way or another.

Seems reasonable to add this for timer_create() (though unfortunate
that it is now too late to do the same for eventfd() and signalfd()).
Davide, what do you think?

Cheers,

Michael
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