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From: gorpong@ping.uucp (Gordon C. Galligher)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: How to do alarm()?
Summary: get/setitimer only exists in BSD systems, I think.
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.044030.16612@ping.uucp>
Date: 2 Nov 90 04:40:30 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.194343.27499@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
Organization: The 23rd. Century
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In article <1990Oct30.194343.27499@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> 
	worley@compass.uucp writes:
>Well, here's the code I use:
[..example using setitimer..]

>4.2 systems, anyway).  You can do setitimer() pretty straightforwardly

I believe that setitimer only exists on BSD flavors of UNIX, and a
solution based on this approach would be non-portable.  Then again, I
may be wrong, all I know is it does not exist on this here SCO UNIX
box, which conforms to the SVID (System V Interface Definition).

		-- Gordon.
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