> The code to implement these is quite small, and the APIs are not unreasonabl$

I agree that a descriptor interface to timer facilities is a Good
Thing.  I've been using AF_TIMER sockets for a decade now and they
really are much more convenient than setitimer() for lots of uses.
(Not API-compatible with timerfd; timerfds have read semantics that
don't match sockets well.)

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