On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 8:25 AM, Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > El Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:30:54AM +0530 Anupam Kapoor ha dit: > > > i am trying out the recently introduced timerfd syscall which folds > > timer-events into the familiar select/poll style event handling. i am > > using "Linux virat 2.6.23-gentoo-r9" for this. i am using the userland > > program that is available here > > "http://www.xmailserver.org/timerfd-test.c" > > > > any ideas on the base version of the kernel where this is implemented > > ? or gentle suggestion about what i might be doing wrong (more likely) > > the first kernel with timerfd support was 2.6.22. in 2.6.23 it has > been disabled due to complaints about its inferface. the just released > 2.6.25 comes with a revised API (http://lwn.net/Articles/260172/) See also: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/timerfd_create.2.html Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ