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Re: B20.1: Setitimer provides virtual timer?
- To: chikayama@klic.org
- Subject: Re: B20.1: Setitimer provides virtual timer?
- From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:44:56 +1000
- Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
- References: <19990812112810X.chik@klic.org>
On 12-Aug-1999, chikayama@klic.org <chikayama@klic.org> wrote:
> "setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, ...)" does not seem to deliver SIGVTALRM
> signals. The test program included below, that sets the process timer
> and loops awaiting for timer expiration, will loop forever. However,
> running this in background and sending the signal by "kill -VTALRM ..."
> from the shell will terminate it as expected (with an exclamation mark
> output).
>
> Is this the spec. of the current release or a bug?
The former, I think.
Last time I checked, only ITIMER_REAL/SIGALRM was supported.
ITIMER_VIRTUAL and ITIMER_PROF were not yet implemented.
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