From: jqb@netcom.com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Missing struct itimerval
9 Feb 1997 20:48:23 -0800
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Grant Leslie wrote:
> 
> > try grep -i itimerval *.h or *.c
> > it should show you one of the files which has the real structure
> > declaration...
> >
> I tried that :(, it's nowhere in the standard headers, or X11 headers
> that I can find.
> And there is no declaration in the Fvwm files either..

Interval timers are a BSD kernel facility to do interval timing at high
resolutions.  You'll have to roll your own.  You set an interval timer
to go off after a specified amount of time and then repeatedly
after a specified increment elapses; the process gets a signal
whenever the timer goes off.

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