On Jun 22 08:05, Ken Brown wrote: > 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.)
Both very tricky. Given the description of timer_getoverrun and how this stuff is implemented in Cygwin, you might get away with #ifdef __CYGWIN__ #define timer_getoverrun(x) 0 #endif indepedently of using SIGEV_SIGNAL or SIGEV_THREAD. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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