According to the Cygwin API documentation (https://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-notes.html), "getitimer and setitimer only support ITIMER_REAL for now." I'm wondering whether there's any chance that support for ITIMER_PROF might be added. I have no idea what the obstacles are.

My reason for asking is that emacs has a CPU profiling function, which doesn't work on Cygwin because it relies on ITIMER_PROF. (There's an alternative implementation, but it requires timer_getoverrun, also not available in Cygwin.)

Ken

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