Re: [patch 6/9] signalfd/timerfd v3 - timerfd core ...

[Nicholas Miell]

On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 16:50 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> You should probably make it behave like the other things that use
> itimerspec, just to avoid confusion -- i.e. timers are relative by
> default, there's a flag that makes them absolute, they expire when
> it_value specifies, and repeat every it_interval nanoseconds if
> it_interval is non-zero.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> int timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags, const struct timespec
> *utmr);
> 
> with TFD_TIMER_ABS in flags making the timer absolute instead of
> relative (and no TFD_TIMER_REL or TFD_TIMER_SEQ at all).
> 

Sorry, that should be

int timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags, const struct itimerspec
*utmr);

and TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME.

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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