On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 7:12 AM, Anupam Kapoor <anupam.kapoor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ,---- > | Anupam Kapoor <anupam> wrote: > | > > | > http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/timerfd_create.2.html > | many thanks michael and mulyadi for the info. i will check it out on a > | vmware setup tonite. > `---- > i tried it yesterday night on my test setup, and it seems to work > fine (as suggested by matthias on the latest 2.5.25 kernel). > > one simple question though: should'nt it be possible to simulate the > interface provided by timerfd using a combination of signalfd + > getitimer ? Each timer delivers its notification on a different file descriptor. We can't do that using signalfd + a traditional timer mechanism. (By the way setitimer wouldn't come close -- you can only have one wall-clock timer set via that API -- POSIX timers allow multiple timers...) -- 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
