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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:44:56 +1000
From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: chikayama@klic.org
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: B20.1: Setitimer provides virtual timer?
Message-ID: <19990812134456.A409@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
References: <19990812112810X.chik@klic.org>
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In-Reply-To: <19990812112810X.chik@klic.org>; from chikayama@klic.org on Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 11:28:10AM +0900

On 12-Aug-1999, chikayama@klic.org <chikayama@klic.org> wrote:
> "setitimer(ITIMER_VIRTUAL, ...)" does not seem to deliver SIGVTALRM
> signals.  The test program included below, that sets the process timer
> and loops awaiting for timer expiration, will loop forever.  However,
> running this in background and sending the signal by "kill -VTALRM ..."
> from the shell will terminate it as expected (with an exclamation mark 
> output).
> 
> Is this the spec. of the current release or a bug?

The former, I think. 

Last time I checked, only ITIMER_REAL/SIGALRM was supported.
ITIMER_VIRTUAL and ITIMER_PROF were not yet implemented.

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