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From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] setitimer equivalent
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 06:55:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <31b636f9de93f12f6ecfc0b369f33515@proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPd04b5awdzQJFpusYUw=M-s3D9_pivZRkW237n6J5exUGQhzA@mail.gmail.com>

> I'm not familiar with a function named settimer, is that from Windows?
> Given the name, would sleep/alarm fit your requirements?

According to the Ubuntu man pages, setitimer(2) operates on one of
three interval timers: ral, virtual and profile.  It could take quite
a bit of effort to port this to APE.  I see that NetBSD echoes the
Linux documentation.

Lucio.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-29  4:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-29  4:28 yoann padioleau
2015-04-29  4:38 ` James A. Robinson
2015-04-29  4:55   ` lucio [this message]
2015-04-29  5:19     ` James A. Robinson
2015-04-29  6:38       ` lucio
2015-04-29 16:47 ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-01  3:21   ` [9fans] setitimer equivalent, and sigvtalarm equivalent yoann padioleau
2015-05-01  7:17     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2015-05-02 15:06     ` erik quanstrom
2015-05-02 15:27       ` cinap_lenrek
2015-05-02 18:01       ` yoann padioleau

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