Andrew, I'm working on the changes to timerfd(), but must admit I am struggling to understand some of the kernel code for working with userspace timers (e.g., in kernel/posix-timers.c). Can you suggest anyone who could provide assistance?
Cheers, Michael Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:18:51 +0200 > Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Andrew, >> >> Andrew Morton wrote: >>> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:32:29 +0200 Michael Kerrisk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Andrew, >>>> >>>> The timerfd() syscall went into 2.6.22. While writing the man page for >>>> this syscall I've found some notable limitations of the interface, and I am >>>> wondering whether you and Linus would consider having this interface fixed >>>> for 2.6.23. >>>> >>>> On the one hand, these fixes would be an ABI change, which is of course >>>> bad. (However, as noted below, you have already accepted one of the ABI >>>> changes that I suggested into -mm, after Davide submitted a patch.) >>>> >>>> On the other hand, the interface has not yet made its way into a glibc >>>> release, and the change will not break applications. (The 2.6.22 version >>>> of the interface would just be "broken".) >>> I think if the need is sufficient we can do this: fix it in 2.6.23 and in >>> 2.6.22.x. That means that there will be a few broken-on-new-glibc kernels >>> out in the wild, but very few I suspect. >> So I'm still not quite clear. Can I take it from your statement above that >> the proposed ABI changes would be admissible, as long as Davide is okay >> with them? >> > > yup, I'll send that diff into Linus and -stable and see what happens. > -- Michael Kerrisk maintainer of Linux man pages Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, and 7 Want to help with man page maintenance? Grab the latest tarball at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ read the HOWTOHELP file and grep the source files for 'FIXME'. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
