Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>]

David Miller wrote:
> Now we'll have to have a compat layer for 32-bit/64-bit environments
> thanks to POSIX timers, which is rediculious.
We already have compat_sys_timer_create.  It should be sufficient just 
to add the conversion (if anything new is needed) there.  The pointer 
value can be passed to userland in one or two int fields, I don't really 
care.  When reporting the event to the user code we cannot just point 
into the ring buffer anyway.  So while copying the data we can rewrite 
it if necessary.  I see no need to complicate the code more than it 
already is.
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