Karsten Blees <karsten.bl...@gmail.com> writes: > While the timer extension (timer_settime) has graduated to mandatory in > the current POSIX spec, the monotonic clock extension is still optional > today (i.e. not necessarily supported even on newer Unices). In contrast > to this, the XSI extensions seem to be widely supported. > > IMO the 'obsolescent' marker in the current POSIX spec is no reason to > spring into action (at least not yet). E.g. utimes (also in <sys/time.h>) > has been marked LEGACY in the 2004 version and is no longer LEGACY today. > Btw., we'd also have to find a replacement for gettimeofday and probably > a lot of other stuff... > > Therefore I tend to agree with Hannes that we should stick with setitimer > and emulate it on systems that don't have it (as we do on Windows).
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