Re: timeouts and suspend
Julian Bradfield writes:
The term "realtime" here and elsewhere ( sleep(),
times()) is
intended to mean "wall clock" time as common English usage, and has
nothing to do with "realtime operating systems".
My understanding is that a lot of people hanging out around POSIX
interpret "wall clock" as "while the computer is running". But that
may just been the high-precision clock folks.
I was trying hard to think of one - what's an example?
Interrupting an infloop. Printing out a progress report.
Ah, I didn't know that. I'd only seen run-at-time in a
comment
somewhere describing it as FSFmacs! Looking at the source, I
suspect it doesn't work - I'll experiment and check when I'm at
home.
Wouldn't be surprised. The itimer code is quite old.
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