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Re: AW: RFC: POSIX timers and threads in a realtime context
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
- Cc: Rich Felker <dalias at libc dot org>, "Warlich, Christof" <christof dot warlich at siemens dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:46:39 +0000
- Subject: Re: AW: RFC: POSIX timers and threads in a realtime context
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On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> It seems to me that Christof's second proposal (add a SIGEV_PTHREAD_ID
> that takes a pthread_t) is *much* simpler than doing all this work,
> and also far more likely to get standardized.
However, my understanding is that there are several other interfaces where
tids are needed as well. (The two proposals need not be mutually
exclusive.)
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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com