Re: Native timerfd and eventfd

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Subject: Re: Native timerfd and eventfd
From: Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2021 10:31:50 -0400 (EDT)

> The code to implement these is quite small, and the APIs are not unreasonabl$

I agree that a descriptor interface to timer facilities is a Good
Thing.  I've been using AF_TIMER sockets for a decade now and they
really are much more convenient than setitimer() for lots of uses.
(Not API-compatible with timerfd; timerfds have read semantics that
don't match sockets well.)

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References:
- Native timerfd and eventfd
  - From: Jason Thorpe

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