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From: "James A. Robinson" <jimr@highwire.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2015 05:19:44 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] setitimer equivalent
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Sorry, I missed the extra 'i' in there.  So is the requirement to get all
three of those time domains supported?  Supporting all three looks to me
like something one would need for building real time systems or a profiling
tool?

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:57 PM <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:

> > 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.
>
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Sorry, I missed the extra &#39;i&#39; in there.=C2=A0 So i=
s the requirement to get all three of those time domains supported?=C2=A0 S=
upporting all three looks to me like something one would need for building =
real time systems or a profiling tool?<br></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quo=
te">On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:57 PM &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:lucio@proxima.alt=
.za">lucio@proxima.alt.za</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quot=
e" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">=
&gt; I&#39;m not familiar with a function named settimer, is that from Wind=
ows?<br>
&gt; Given the name, would sleep/alarm fit your requirements?<br>
<br>
According to the Ubuntu man pages, setitimer(2) operates on one of<br>
three interval timers: ral, virtual and profile.=C2=A0 It could take quite<=
br>
a bit of effort to port this to APE.=C2=A0 I see that NetBSD echoes the<br>
Linux documentation.<br>
<br>
Lucio.<br>
<br>
<br>
</blockquote></div>

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