> But then I read BSD's setitimer man page, and was suddenly very happy > I run something else. (Honestly, you're on the runqueue, you know > how to set timers more finely than 100Hz and you already expect to be > awake for the next 10ms, maybe do the trivial amount of integer math > required to kick the timer interrupt both when the user asked for it > and on the next scheduler tick.)
You don't say which BSD, nor which version; there is no single "BSD's setitimer manpage". But at least some of the BSDs run on hardware that simply cannot do what you suggest. Unless you think they should install a different setitimer manpage depending on which hardware is in use (which has its own problems, mostly involving human expectations). /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
