Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754532AbXIVQH2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:07:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753889AbXIVQHT (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:07:19 -0400 Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com ([72.14.214.229]:37937 "EHLO hu-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753679AbXIVQHR (ORCPT ); Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:07:17 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=cTg9kU4IquJFeAxuSl5fjEiyzdZQbLzr/ypnhGdJ+dp+lXLJ9l5rwMlFtFAlmMr36sia2cZF4pYRsr68NsulJ7Q3xE8+OlYLmyZKI4jNj8/HUeEaWal5rMMFJbboAEFMziguWsmlOYrpd3axM/EAKGyPJuwtqkk1qOSPpouCT6Y= Message-ID: <517f3f820709220907l4c4e693di3df6942bdca5bcfa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:07:14 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk" To: "Bernd Eckenfels" Subject: Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ulrich Drepper" , geoff@gclare.org.uk, "Andrew Morton" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Christoph Hellwig" , "Jonathan Corbet" , "Randy Dunlap" , vda.linux@googlemail.com, "Linus Torvalds" , "Lee Schermerhorn" , "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?David_H=E4rdeman?=" , mtk-manpages@gmx.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46F514C9.5010208@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 962 Lines: 30 Hello Bernd, Please don't trim the CC list when replying! I nearly did not see your reply, and others will have missed it also. On 9/22/07, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > In article <46F514C9.5010208@gmx.net> you wrote: > > 1. This design stretches the POSIX timers API in strange > > ways. > > Maybe it is possible to reimplement the POSIX API in usermode using the > kernel's FD implementation? It's a clever idea... Without thinking on it too long, I'm not sure whether or not there might be some details which would make this difficult. > (and drop the posix support from kernel) However we couldn't drop POSIX support from the kernel, because that would break the ABI. Cheers, Michael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/