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Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 01:08:37 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: Synchronous signal delivery..
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Davide Libenzi wrote:
> What do you think about having timers through a file interface ?

Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but couldn't you simply
do this with a signal handler that writes to (a) pipe(s) ?

- Werner

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