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Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 15:33:10 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: "Robert H. de Vries" <rhdv@rhdv.cistron.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
        Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1
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Robert H. de Vries wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have
>    up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process.

Why is there a limit?  With such a small limit, any library that wants
to use its own private timers is going to have to agree a way to
multiplex with other libraries, and you're back to setitimer().

-- Jamie
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