Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

From: Evgeniy Polyakov
Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 - 06:21:37 EST


On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:54:58PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > ===================
> >
> > - there is really no reason to invent yet another timer implementation.
> > We have the POSIX timers which are feature rich and nicely
> > implemented. All that is needed is to implement SIGEV_KEVENT as a
> > notification mechanism. The timer is registered as part of the
> > timer_create() syscalls.
>
> Feel free to add any interface you like - it is as simple as call for
> kevent_user_add_ukevent() in userspace.

... in kernelspace I mean.

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Evgeniy Polyakov
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