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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
Cc: Guile-devel Development <guile-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: setitimer with Cygwin and Hurd
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2017 22:04:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737eq9kw8.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1493122235.1719816.1488779191346@mail.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Mon, 6 Mar 2017 05:46:31 +0000 (UTC)")

On Mon 06 Mar 2017 06:46, Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> 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).

Andy



  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-06 21:04 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 [this message]
2017-03-07 14:31     ` Mike Gran
2017-03-07 14:37       ` Andy Wingo

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