Re: Kevent POSIX timers support.

[Ulrich Drepper]

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.

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