On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Actually, the only place where I can find the itimerspec usefull, is > > indeed with TFD_TIMER_SEQ. In cases where you want you clock starting at a > > given time (it_value) *and* with the given frequency (it_interval). > > .. and this is where itimerspec is even better: once you have absolute > time, *and* a process that might miss ticks (because it does something > else), the "absolute time start + interval" thing can avoid drifting > (which a "relative interval" has a really hard time doing). > > So if you want a "timer tick every second, *on* the second" kind of > interface, you really do want a absolute time starting point, and then a > fixed interval. Two different times.
Alrighty, I'll use a itimerspec ... - Davide - 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/
