Re: RFC: A revised timerfd API

[Michael Kerrisk]

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> >
> > > I applied this patch against 2.6.27-rc7, and wired up the syscalls as shown
> > > in the definitions below.  When I ran the the program below, my system
> > > immediately froze.  Can you try it on your system please.
> > There's an hrtimer_init() missing in timerfd_create(). I'll refactor the 
> > patch.
>
> There's the case of a timerfd_gettime return status when the timerfd has 
> not been set yet (ie, soon after a timerfd_create), to handle.
> Current way is to return an (itimerspec) { 0, 0 }. Ok?

Seems reasonable.  In the analogous situation, the POSIX timers API 
returns a structure containing all zeros, at least on Linux.
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