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

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/sleep

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:31 PM yoann padioleau <aryx.padator@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

I’m trying to port some code to plan9 using APE
but I can’t find the setitimer function in any include/ape/ files.
What is the equivalent to setitimer under plan9?