Re: [patch 6/13] signal/timer/event fds v6 - timerfd core ...

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sat Mar 17 2007 - 17:36:45 EST


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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