On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:39:04AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Theo Buehler wrote on Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:04:43AM +0100: > > Todd Millert wrote: > > >> Please don't, alarm(3) is perfectly fine to be using. We should > >> probably remove that line from the manual. > > > The comment of alarm being made obsolete by setitimer has been there > > for 30 years: > > > > https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=alarm&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=2.10+BSD&arch=default&format=html > > > > NetBSD and FreeBSD also still have it. > > I would prefer the following patch.
So do I. That's much better than the cheapest possible solution I chose. I suggest to give others a chance to express their opinion, but as far as I'm concerned this is ok.
