Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 02:43:50AM +0200, Jari Sundell (sundell.software@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Actually, I didn't miss that, it is an orthogonal issue. A timespec
> timeout parameter for the syscall does not imply the use of timespec
> in any timer event, etc. Nor is there any timespec timer in kqueue's
> struct kevent, which is the only (interface related) thing that will
> be exposed.

void * in structure exported to userspace is forbidden.
long in syscall requires wrapper in per-arch code (although that
workaround _is_ there, it does not mean that broken interface should 
be used).
poll uses millisecods - it is perfectly ok.

> Rakshasa

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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