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From: mburg@unix386.Convergent.COM (Mike Burg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: 8254 timer usage under Sys V/386 R3.2?
Summary: Look in io
Message-ID: <5910@unix386.Convergent.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 91 19:04:59 GMT
References: <16808@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1991Feb1.202411.9033@ico.isc.com> <107@calcite.UUCP>
Organization: Unisys/Convergent, San Jose, CA
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In article <107@calcite.UUCP>, vjs@calcite.UUCP (Vernon Schryver) writes:
[Discussion about timer driver implementation deleted]
> A quick grep thru a copy of the SVR4 os/*.c showed me no signs of itimers.
> I don't see how you could have decent BSD compatibility without them, but
> they didn't call it SV without reason.  (Yes, the original article was
> about SVR3.2.)
> Vernon Schryver,   vjs@calcite.uucp

Try looking at uts/i386/io/hrtimers.c, lib/libc/port/gen/getsetitimer.c,
and lib/libc/port/sys/hrtsys.c. The library routines convert the BSD style
of itimer into the a format use by the HRTSYS system call.
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