Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 23:45:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portability of shm, mmap, pipes and socket IPC Message-ID: <199902122345.QAA26318@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199902121146.GAA02357@cally.south.mpcs.com> from "Howard Goldstein" at Feb 12, 99 06:46:58 am
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> : > > > Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> writes: > : > > > > The problem is that linux updates the timeval structure on return, > : > > > > telling you how much time is left. > : > : Linux doesn't do this in the default implementation any more. They > : have a seperate system call that still does this. > > This would save me a gettimeofday() call and some math if we had a > call for this too. > > : [...] > : When writing new code. > > Yes, for that. > > Realtime signals would help almost as much, perhaps in a more portable > way. man setitimer Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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