timerfd() and system call review

Posted Aug 30, 2007 23:19 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: timerfd() and system call review by IkeTo
Parent article: timerfd() and system call review

Actually I'd expect this to be mostly used by libraries. Currently
libraries have the problem that signal disposition is process-global and
can't be reset without interfering with other libraries, which is
ameliorated by signalfd. Also, major libraries like glib *can*
realistically include system-dependent code without being too annoying: it
only has to go into glib, rather than into all its users (and glib already
supports some Linux-specific interfaces anyway: indeed in a sense that's
part of its raison d'etre).