timerfd support

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:56:31PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>This patch adds timerfd support and is relative to the signalfd  patch.
> The actual function code reuses functions, nothing fancy.
>
>The patch contains a bug fix, too.  Somebody mistook C for Python and
>thought indenting is enough to start a block.
>
>2007-02-23  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper at redhat.com>
>
>	* time.c (printitv_bitness): Add missing braces to enclose
>	conditional code.
>	(TDF_TIMER_ABSTIME): Define if not already.
>	(timerfdflags): New variable.
>	(sys_timerfd): New function.
>	* linux/syscall.h: Declare sys_timerfd.
>	* linux/syscallent.h: Add timerfd entry.
>	* linux/x86_64/syscallent.h: Likewise.
>
>-- 
>??? Ulrich Drepper ??? Red Hat, Inc. ??? 444 Castro St ??? Mountain View, CA ???

>Index: time.c
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvsroot/strace/strace/time.c,v
>retrieving revision 1.21
>diff -u -p -r1.21 time.c
>--- time.c	24 Jul 2007 01:58:52 -0000	1.21
>+++ time.c	24 Jul 2007 03:50:00 -0000
>@@ -288,22 +288,24 @@ printitv_bitness(struct tcb *tcp, long a

>+static const struct xlat timerfdflags[] = {
>+	{ TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME,	"TFD_TIMER_ABSTIME"	},
>+	{ 0,			NULL			}
>+};
>+
>+int
>+sys_timerfd(tcp)
>+struct tcb *tcp;
>+{

I'm curious as to why you use an old-style function definition here?