Hello Bernd, Please don't trim the CC list when replying! I nearly did not see your reply, and others will have missed it also.
On 9/22/07, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > 1. This design stretches the POSIX timers API in strange > > ways. > > Maybe it is possible to reimplement the POSIX API in usermode using the > kernel's FD implementation? It's a clever idea... Without thinking on it too long, I'm not sure whether or not there might be some details which would make this difficult. > (and drop the posix support from kernel) However we couldn't drop POSIX support from the kernel, because that would break the ABI. Cheers, Michael - 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/
