Re: POSIX timer syscalls

[george anzinger]

David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 15:53:50 -0800, george anzinger <[e-mail]> said:
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>   George> I think there is a bit of a problem in the idr code
>   George> (.../lib/idr.c) which manages the id allocation.  Seems we
>   George> are returning "long" from functions declared as int.  If I
>   George> remember the code correctly this will work, but it does
>   George> eliminate the sequence number that should be in the high 8
>   George> bits of the id.
> 
> Yes.  We have had some reports of problems with POSIX timers and I
> suspect this might be the reason (though I don't know what the exact
> code-base was that the person reporting the problem was using).
> 
>   George> This assumes that you never allocate more than 2,147,483,647
>   George> timers at once :) I will look at this and send in a patch.
>   George> I think we should return what ever timer_t is, so we should
>   George> run that to ground first.
> 
> Yes, that would be better.  According to Uli, a 32-bit timer_t is fine
> as far as the standards are concerned.  That's good.
> 
>   George> I suspect we should also have a look at all the structures
>   George> with a view to alignment issues or is this not a problem?
>   George> I.e. is this struct ok:
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>   George> struct { long a; int b; long c; }
> 
> Such code may be OK correctnesswise, but to avoid wasting space, it's
> clearly better to list larger members first.

Ok, I will fix all the above and shoot you a patch.  I assume you can 
test it on a 64-bit platform.  Right?

-g
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> 	--david
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> 

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