Re: [PATCH 12/13] hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Yes, it is a great advantage, but it feels like a hack. Maybe it is
> > better done with LD_PRELOAD or something?
> 
> that's not working very well in general, and doesn't work across exec
> etc.

LD_PRELOAD should work over exec...

Another possibility would be to declare new syscalls, and have glibc
automatically use select_slack(, foo) if GLIBC_SLACK=foo.

							Pavel
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