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