Scott Cheloha <[email protected]> wrote:

> FWIW, the manpage has literally always led with this bolded
> implementation detail.  From January of 1986:
> 
> https://svnweb.freebsd.org/csrg/lib/libc/gen/ualarm.3?revision=25789&view=markup

I'm just saying it is uninformative and distracting.

> ... specifically, setitimer(2) can handle huge intervals that, when
> converted to a count of microseconds, will overflow ualarm's return
> value.  So using both interfaces in the same program is error-prone.
> There's no good reason to do so, and we should discourage programmers
> from doing so unambiguously.

In short words: "don't intermix".

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