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Re: Broken timers (handle_alarm_signal is never called)?


From: Dmitry Antipov
Subject: Re: Broken timers (handle_alarm_signal is never called)?
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 07:42:31 +0400
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On 07/26/2014 01:54 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

It's supposed to be called every time SIGALRM is delivered.  I expect this
isn't really answering your underlying question, and I'm afraid I did not
really follow the question.  But have you fixed the
problem (whatever it was) already, in trunk bzr 117574?

Yes.  The question was "where is my SIGARLM from POSIX interval timer?"
Since atimer expiration is absolute, we should arm the system timer using
absolute time (with TIMER_ABSTIME) but not relative (which is by default).

Dmitry





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