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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Posix timers for 2.3.48
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

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