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Re: new module timer-time
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: new module timer-time |
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Wed, 20 Jul 2011 10:12:25 -0700 |
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On 07/20/11 02:01, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Well I suppose you could emulate a subset of timer_settime with setitimer,
> but it would be awkward and I don't need that functionality at present.
I might look into this issue at some point, for Emacs (which uses
'setitimer' and which can't reasonably fall back on 'alarm'). However,
this is not urgent, as Emacs is in a freeze now. I also suspect it
would be a bit awkward, particularly the documention of what
apps can and can't do with the emulation.
Anyway, it isn't needed for coreutils so we don't need to worry about it now.