Help me to understand the POSIX timers

[george anzinger]

"Thomas Bushnell, BSG" wrote:
> 
> george anzinger <george@mvista.com> writes:
> 
> > I am trying to figure out how to integrate the high-res-timers (see
> > signature) stuff into glibc without loosing functionality.  The standard
> > says that these timers should time execution time, and I need to
> > understand how they do that.
> 
> Well, they really have to be implemented with kernel support; that is,
> principally with kernel support, rather just like ordinary old
> pre-threads itimers.

I think I have a charter to do just that, but first I need to know what
they do now.  Where, for example, is the thread code.  I tried to get
TAGS to find it but it fails.

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George           george@mvista.com
High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/