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From: matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Gnu Emacs Mail Flag
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Date: 15 Dec 88 21:23:25 GMT
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The trouble seems to be that GNU emacs does not provide a way to send an
arbitrary signal to a process.  (In this case, SIGALRM.)  To provide
such a mechanism might reduce portability, at least I suppose that's why
it isn't already there.

A somewhat more portable alternative might be to have the "loadst"
program do a select() on fd 0 with a timeout of 60 seconds (or whatever
value is given by argv).  If you want to tickle loadst sooner, send the
display-time process a byte of input.

Comments?
				Matt Crawford