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.
