# Replace setitimer(2) by timer_settime(2)

1 messages from 2021-10-30 to 2021-10-30. Participants: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages).
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/56815

## Alejandro Colomar (man-pages), 2021-10-30 20:29

Subject: Replace setitimer(2) by timer_settime(2)
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Hi,

POSIX deprecated settimer(2) in favor of timer_settime(2).  Their 
interface is almost identical, but that the new syscalls use nanosecond 
precision (struct timespec), while the old one uses microsecond 
precision (struct timeval).

I'm goind to put a more prominent [[deprecated]] notice in the SYNOPSIS 
of the manual page.

I noticed you are using setitimer(2), so you may want to consider 
replacing it by timer_settime(2).

Cheers,

Alex


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Alejandro Colomar
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