On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 13:44 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Nicholas Miell wrote: > > > > That's what the sigevent structure is for -- to describe how events > > should be signaled to userspace, whether by signal delivery, thread > > creation, or queuing to event completion ports. If if you think > > extending it would be bad, I can show you the line in POSIX where it > > encourages the contrary. > > I'm sorry, but by pointing to the POSIX timer stuff, you're just making > your argument weaker. > > POSIX timers are a horrible crock and over-designed to be a union of > everything that has ever been done. Nasty. We had tons of bugs in the > original setup because they were so damn nasty. >
Care to elaborate on why they're a horrible crock? And are the bugs fixed? If so, why replace them? They work now. > I'd rather look at just about *anything* else for good design than from > some of the abortions that are posix-timers. > > Linus -- Nicholas Miell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/
