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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:41:06 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: setitimer and getitimer
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> I.e. the 'ovalue->it_interval' is the same as was specified in the
> previous setitimer() call, and 'ovalue->it_value' is the remaining time
> until this timer fires. 

I made a change that makes our implementation behave this way, and will 
check it in later today.

> According to DEC, this is standardized not by POSIX, but by XPG4-UNIX. 
> That's the X/Open group definition of Unix.

That was my mistake: I thought setitimer was Posix, but it isn't.

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