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Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 06:55:27 +0200
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Subject: Re: [9fans] setitimer equivalent
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> 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.