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From: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
To: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
Cc: Guile-devel Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: setitimer with Cygwin and Hurd
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:31:16 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1079723129.393127.1488897076118@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8737eq9kw8.fsf@pobox.com>




>> On Hurd, calls to setitimer and getitimer for the profiling
>> and virtual timers will always fail with ENOSYS.
>> On Cygwin, calls to setitimer and getitimer for the
>> profiling and virtual timers will always fail with EINVAL.

>Is it possible to avoid defining these interfaces if they will never
>work?

>Is that even a good idea? :)  Maybe not.  Would be better to have
>(defined? 'setitimer) or so.  If not, a setitimer feature I guess --
>(provided? 'setitimer).
This is what I came up with
branch wip-itimer-checks
commit f5b362586d7622c408d4402c7cb496c45ffb56e8
What do you think?
-Mike



  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-07 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1493122235.1719816.1488779191346.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2017-03-06  5:46 ` setitimer with Cygwin and Hurd Mike Gran
2017-03-06 21:04   ` Andy Wingo
2017-03-07 14:31     ` Mike Gran [this message]
2017-03-07 14:37       ` Andy Wingo

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