Re: [PATCH] poll(2) timeout values

On Iau, 2005-11-10 at 11:31 -0500, Peter Staubach wrote:
> Clearly, the timeout calculations problem can be fixed without changing
> the arguments to the sys_poll() routine.  However, it is cleaner to fix
> it this way by ensuring the sizes and types of arguments match.

There really is no need for the kernel API to match the userspace one,
many of our others differ between the syscall interface which is most
definitely 'exported' in one sense and the POSIX interface which is
defined by libc, posix and the LSB etc

No argument about the timeout fix.

Alan

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