Messages in this thread | | | From | Malcolm Beattie <> | Subject | Re: Linux-1.3.81 | Date | Mon, 1 Apr 1996 11:10:08 +0100 (BST) |
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Ben Wing writes: > XEmacs calls setitimer() on its > own, and any calls to alarm() (except when specially bracketed inside > of XEmacs) mess things up because Linux (and other Unixen) has the > extremely annoying behavior of only providing one alarm timeout per > process.
POSIX.1b has timer_create(3) and friends which guarantee you at least 32 independent timers per process. I don't know if that part of .1b has made it into Linux yet, though.
--Malcolm
-- Malcolm Beattie <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk> Unix Systems Programmer Oxford University Computing Services
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