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Date:      Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:31:34 +0300 (MSK)
From:      Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: getsysfd() patch #1 (Re: Virtual memory question)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301142230540.30274-100000@is>
In-Reply-To: <3E23F51D.4AD21462@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Terry Lambert wrote:

> Matthew Dillon wrote:

> >     When I'm talking about timers, I mean the real deal.  Not the pipsqueak
> >     little timers implemented by kqueue.
> 
> You mean implemented as the timeout parameter in kqueue; there's
> no reason that the kqueue can't be used as the event communication
> mechanism for itimers (for example).  I believe that supporting
> one-shots would be within the realm of the standard, in terms of
> implementation defined flags on itimers...

I think Matt means not kqueue timeout parameter but EVFILT_TIMER
filter that has millisecond resolution and allows periodic (by default)
or oneshot (with EV_ONESHOT flag) timers.


Igor Sysoev
http://sysoev.ru/en/


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