Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:20:50 -0800

> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> >> We need to pass the data in the sigev_value meember of the struct 
> >> sigevent structure passed to timer_create to the caller.  I don't see it 
> >> being done here nor when the timer is created.  Do I miss something? 
> >> The sigev_value value should be stored in the user/ptr member of struct 
> >> ukevent.
> > 
> > sigev_value was stored in k_itimer structure, I just do not know where
> > to put it in the ukevent provided to userspace - it can be placed in
> > pointer value if you like.
> 
> sigev_value is a union and the largest element is a pointer.  So, 
> transporting the pointer value is sufficient and it should be passed up 
> to the user in the ptr member of struct ukevent.

Now we'll have to have a compat layer for 32-bit/64-bit environments
thanks to POSIX timers, which is rediculious.

This is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping we could avoid when
designing these data structures.  No pointers, no non-fixed sized
types, only types which are identically sized and aligned between
32-bit and 64-bit environments.

It's OK to have these problems for things designed a long time ago
before 32-bit/64-bit compat issues existed, but for new stuff no
way.
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