AW: RFC: POSIX timers and threads in a realtime context

Zack Weinberg zackw@panix.com
Tue Oct 6 15:59:00 GMT 2015


On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 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.)

Do you have a list?  That would really help me, at least, understand
the tradeoffs.

zw



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