Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Robert H. de Vries wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have > >up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process. > > Why is there a limit? With such a small limit, any libr

Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Jamie Lokier
Robert H. de Vries wrote: > Hi Linus, > c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have >up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process. Why is there a limit? With such a small limit, any library that wants to use its own private timers is going t

[PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Robert H. de Vries
Hi Linus, Please accept this patch for inclusion. The impact on the kernel is negligible and it makes the kernel a bit more POSIX feature complete. I have received good feedback from people who have used the patch and I have used it a lot myself without any problems. This patch should not impac