Re: A better interface, perhaps: a timed signal flag

[Alan Cox]

Ar Gwe, 2006-07-28 am 10:52 -0400, ysgrifennodd Theodore Tso:
> Good point, and limiting this facility to one such timeout per
> task_struct seems like a reasonable restriction. 

Why is this any better than using a thread or signal handler ? From the
implementation side its certainly horrible - we will be trying to write
user pages from an IRQ event. Far better to let the existing thread code
deal with it.


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