POSIX equivalent of rtems_timer_fire_after

[joel.sherrill at OARcorp.com (Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>)]

Peter Dufault wrote:
> 
> On Mar 9, 2004, at 12:31 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> 
>> Without building a timer server that executes an arbitrary user provided
>> function, I think that is the only mechanism POSIX provides.
>>
>> This is one area I think POSIX was weak in.
> 
> 
> I don't use RTEMS yet, I'm just monitoring, so I'm not sure if
> RTEMS has _POSIX_TIMERS, but doesn't _POSIX_TIMERS do this?
> 
> See "timer_create()" and friends.
>

RTEMS supports POSIX timers.  But re-reading the Open Group
specification again, I only see signals at timeout.

> Peter
> 
> Peter Dufault
> HD Associates, Inc.
> 


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