Re: [PATCH 15/18] flag parameters: NONBLOCK in timerfd_create

[Davide Libenzi]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Ulrich Drepper wrote:

> diff --git a/fs/timerfd.c b/fs/timerfd.c
> index c6ef5e3..75d44ef 100644
> --- a/fs/timerfd.c
> +++ b/fs/timerfd.c
> @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_timerfd_create(int clockid, int flags)
>  	int ufd;
>  	struct timerfd_ctx *ctx;
>  
> -	if (flags & ~TFD_CLOEXEC)
> +	if (flags & ~(TFD_CLOEXEC | TFD_NONBLOCK))
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	if (clockid != CLOCK_MONOTONIC &&
>  	    clockid != CLOCK_REALTIME)
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_timerfd_create(int clockid, int flags)
>  	hrtimer_init(&ctx->tmr, clockid, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS);
>  
>  	ufd = anon_inode_getfd("[timerfd]", &timerfd_fops, ctx,
> -			       flags & O_CLOEXEC);
> +			       flags & (O_CLOEXEC | O_NONBLOCK));
>  	if (ufd < 0)
>  		kfree(ctx);

This is perfectly fine for me. Since the flags space for these new 
syscalls is almost empty, it makes perfect sense to just map them to the 
original O_* flags.


Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

(for the whole serie)



- Davide


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