timers and itimers

[Steve Youngs <steve@youngs.au.com>]

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I've just committed a patch that cleans up all of the timer code for
XEmacs, including removing run-at-time.el.

In the xemacs-base package there is a new lib, timer-funcs.el which
correctly implements, using itimers, most (all?) of the GNU timer
functions not present in itimer.el.  In other words, XEmacs users no
longer have to rely on the ugly compatibility hacks in the fsf-compat
package. :-)

This clean up is definitely needed in the 5.10 branch so I'll commit a
similar patch there a little later tonight.

For the GNU people who are interested, timer-funcs.el provides the
following functions:

cancel-function-timers
run-at-time
run-with-idle-timer
run-with-timer
timer-duration
timer-next-integral-multiple-of-time
timer-parse-time
timer-relative-time
with-timeout
with-timeout-handler
y-or-n-p-with-timeout


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