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timerfd() and system call reviewtimerfd() and system call reviewPosted Aug 17, 2007 11:49 UTC (Fri) by Octavian (subscriber, #7462)In reply to: timerfd() and system call review by clugstj Parent article: timerfd() and system call review
> Why is this going into the kernel? It is trivial to achieve the same effect in userspace with pipe() and a thread sleeping in pthread_cond_timedwait().
The pipe() mechanism to achieve synchr. timer events wrt epoll()/select() are considered a 'trick' I suppose (which I've used in my own projects too). So, in the end we do not need to remember this trick at least, that's an achievement.
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