Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 3 Feb 2001 15:33:10 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1 |
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Robert H. de Vries wrote: > Hi Linus, > c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have > up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process.
Why is there a limit? With such a small limit, any library that wants to use its own private timers is going to have to agree a way to multiplex with other libraries, and you're back to setitimer().
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