Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API

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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 <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]> 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
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