Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watdragon!tcjones
From: tcjones@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Crocodile Dundee)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: setitimer
Message-ID: <4672@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 18 Jan 88 00:50:28 GMT
Reply-To: tcjones@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Crocodile Dundee)
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I was wondering if there were people out there who know the details of
setitimer/getitimer. I know how to work them and all that, but the figures I
get seem very inconsistent. Does anyone know what happens if a timer expires
and you do not have the CPU at the time? What if another timer then expires
before you get the CPU? What sort of resolution can one reasonably expect? I
never seem to get anything better than 100ths of seconds accuracy.

I am on a VAX 8650 under BSD4.3
Thanks.


Terry Jones

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