Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: set (no)timeout in vi
Message-ID: <4159@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 17:55:10 GMT
References: <1990Oct2.211454.1195@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> <0dEy02sbcfd=01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>BSD systems don't have this problem because, I think, setitimer() has
>different and better semantics (I'm making an assumption that setitimer()
>is what is used

	bootme% pwd              
	/disks/alpha1/5c/unix_src/bsd4.3-tahoe/usr/src/ucb/ex
	bootme% egrep setitimer *.[ch]

"I see no setitimer here".  BSD's "vi" uses "alarm()".  Dunno what else
is different; if you have both flavors of source handy, you can find out
yourself....