David Härdeman wrote: > On Tue, September 18, 2007 13:30, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>>> timer_gettime(fd | POSIX_TIMER_FD, .....); >> If we use the most significant bit for POSIX_TIMER_FD, we should be >> fine. > > I think alternative b) - three new syscalls, sounds better. > > The only negatives so far are that it adds more syscalls and that it might > require code duplication with posix timers. The syscall numbers argument > seemed not to be very important and the code duplication should be fixable > by refactoring the code so that more is shared between the two systems (I > assume).
Yes, I'm inclined to agree with you on both points. > Overloading file descriptors with flags looks ugly, is there any other > syscall which does that? AFAIK there is no other syscall that does that. I agree that it's not very pretty. Cheers, Michael -- 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/
