Re: itimers and timer-func.el's `run-at-time' clash regarding the current time / zero interval

nix> (an exception's thrown during auto-autoloads reading). It nix> probably breaks other stuff but I wasn't going to go hunting nix> with an XEmacs that wouldn't start. :) Urk. Failure of auto-autoloads should _not_ prevent XEmacs from starting. But that's not what I came to talk about today.... nix> It seems to me that it's valid programming practice to have a nix> fires-now instantly-repeats itimer, because the itimer nix> function might reset its own repeat period to something else. OK, but does your patch really implement F-N I-R, or just a very close approximation on systems that are running sanely? What really makes sense here? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.