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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: timer_t ?
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:27:37PM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote:
>Hi.. random question..  <sys/types.h> contains:
>
>    typedef   _BSD_TIMER_T_   timer_t;
>
>What is this used for? I can't find any uses of "timer_t".

In a recent -STABLE:

/usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpd/ntp_timer.c:87:        static timer_t ntpd_timerid;    /* should be global if we ever want */
/usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpdate/ntpdate.c:80:static timer_t ntpdate_timerid;
/usr/src/contrib/ntp/ntpdate/ntptimeset.c:184:static timer_t ntpdate_timerid;

Peter

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