Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Sat, 15 Feb 2003 02:06:28 +0200 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: Synchronous signal delivery.. |
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On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 04:00:03PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote: .... > > > > One of the reasons for the "flags" field (which is not unused) was because > > > > I thought it might have extensions for things like alarms etc. > > > I was thinking more like : > > > > > > int timerfd(int timeout, int oneshot); > > > > It could be a separate system call, ... > > I would personally like it a lot to have timer events available on > pollable fds. Am I alone in this ?
Somehow all this idea has a feeling of long established Linux kernel facility called: netlink
It can send varying messages to userspace via a file-handle, and is pollable. Originally that is for network codes, and therefore it already has protocol capable to handle multiple different formats, handle queue saturation, etc.
Do we need new syscall(s) ? Could it all be done with netlink ?
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