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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:14:54 +0100
From: "Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
To: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the new timerfd?
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On Nov 23, 2007 7:38 PM, Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 23, 2007 9:29 AM, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
> > Yes, it's disabled, and yes, I'll repost today ...
>
> I haven't seen the patch and don't feel like searching.  So I say it
> here: please mak sure you add a flags parameter to the system call
> itself (instead of adding it on as for eventfd and signalfd).  We need
> to be able to use O_CLOEXEC some way or another.

Seems reasonable to add this for timer_create() (though unfortunate
that it is now too late to do the same for eventfd() and signalfd()).
Davide, what do you think?

Cheers,

Michael