From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jan 14 11:31:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6593C37B406 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:31:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from park.rambler.ru (park.rambler.ru [81.19.64.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926CD43E4A for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 11:31:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from is@rambler-co.ru) Received: from is.park.rambler.ru (is.park.rambler.ru [81.19.64.102]) by park.rambler.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0EJVZQB023811; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:31:35 +0300 (MSK) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 22:31:34 +0300 (MSK) From: Igor Sysoev X-Sender: is@is To: Terry Lambert Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: getsysfd() patch #1 (Re: Virtual memory question) In-Reply-To: <3E23F51D.4AD21462@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message