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On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Werner Almesberger wrote:

> 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) ?

You could do that, even if when you start having many timers things might
get messy.



- Davide

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