Subject: RE: ITIMER Implimentation???
From: [email-masked] (Sergey Okhapkin)

4 Dec 1996 02:10:35 -0800
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Jeremy Allison wrote:
>Timers are not implemented yet in cygwin32 (Not even in
>the mythical beta17 :-). The reason is that asynchronous
>signals are not available in NT/95 (for reasons see the VMS
>source code or any other of Dave Cutlers work, ie. it's a
>religious thing :-).

Hopefully, You are not right :-) Win32 API is huge, and contain all 
neccessary functions. And asyncronous timer events too. You may use 
SetTimer(NULL,...). It seems to me, _every_ unix system call may be 
emulated with Win32 API functions! BTW, what about to implement vfork() 
using threads mechanism and fork() with copy-on-write semantic using memory 
mapped files?-)

Furthermore, ALL unix signals can be implemented with Win32 API! Even under 
Windows95. For exampe, SIGCLD signal (death of child process) can be 
emulated with Win32 debug functions, etc...

Once more - Win32 API is huge and rich! And nobody knows this API fully :-)

Sergey Okhapkin
Moscow, Russia

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