B20.1: Setitimer provides virtual timer?

Fergus Henderson fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Tue Aug 31 23:49:00 GMT 1999


On 12-Aug-1999, chikayama@klic.org <chikayama@klic.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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