On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Davide, > > A further question: what is the expected behavior in the > following scenario: > > 1. Create a timerfd and arm it. > 2. Wait until M timer expirations have occurred > 3. Modify the settings of the timer > 4. Wait for N further timer expirations have occurred > 5. read() from the timerfd > > Does the buffer returned by the read() contain the value > N or (M+N)? In other words, should modifying the timer > settings reset the expiration count to zero?
Every timerfd_settime() zeroes the tick counter. So in your scenario it'll return N. - Davide - 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/
