Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2021 07:04:38 GMT From: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-branches@FreeBSD.org Subject: git: b7e90b290ab5 - stable/13 - kqueue: document how timers with low/past timeouts are handled Message-ID: <202110060704.19674cdg024468@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
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The branch stable/13 has been updated by kevans: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=b7e90b290ab511dbbf1f1598e49092aaa73599e6 commit b7e90b290ab511dbbf1f1598e49092aaa73599e6 Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2021-09-30 18:19:05 +0000 Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2021-10-06 07:04:00 +0000 kqueue: document how timers with low/past timeouts are handled (cherry picked from commit 4b5554cebb66020f59dc869b835aebbd66e4bb8c) --- lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2 | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2 b/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2 index ed737c626ef8..ffcddc00303f 100644 --- a/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2 +++ b/lib/libc/sys/kqueue.2 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd September 7, 2021 +.Dd October 6, 2021 .Dt KQUEUE 2 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -584,6 +584,12 @@ On return, .Va fflags contains the events which triggered the filter. .Pp +Periodic timers with a specified timeout of 0 will be silently adjusted to +timeout after 1 of the time units specified by the requested precision in +.Va fflags . +If an absolute time is specified that has already passed, then it is treated as +if the current time were specified and the event will fire as soon as possible. +.Pp If an existing timer is re-added, the existing timer will be effectively canceled (throwing away any undelivered record of previous timer expiration) and re-started using the new parameters contained in
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