Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:16:40 +0100 (CET) | From | Robert de Vries <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Posix timers for 2.3.48 |
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 09:52:55PM +0100, Robert de Vries wrote: > > As a reaction to the question if this should be in the kernel in the first > > place: IMHO, there is no way to emulate these calls in user space by using > > the setitimer() system call. For the following reasons: > [...] > > This probably means that setitimer should be implemented using posix > timers, no?
No, setitimer is an existing system call. Removing it would break backward compatibility. So: yes, it is possible, and: no, it isn't done.
Robert
-- Robert de Vries rhdv@rhdv.cistron.nl
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