[PATCH v2 2/2] posix-timers: Exposes DELAYTIMER_MAX constant used to govern overruns

Thomas Gleixner tglx@linutronix.de
Sat Jan 24 19:21:00 GMT 2015


On Sat, 24 Jan 2015, Daniel Church wrote:

> POSIX.1-2001 specification of timer_getoverrun() supports constant
> DELAYTIMER_MAX which prevents overflow and caps overrun count.  Exposes
> delaytimer_max value to userland via /proc/sys/kernel/delaytimer_max such

I know that you try to match the posix name, but when looking at the
prctl w/o knowing about DELAYTIMER_MAX, it's non intuitive.

Something like posixtimer_max_overruns or if you insist on the
delaytimer_max part, then let us prepend it with posixtimer_ at least.

New prctls require an update of Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt.

Thanks,

	tglx




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