Re: Broken timers (handle_alarm_signal is never called)?

[Dmitry Antipov]

On 07/26/2014 01:54 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:

> It's supposed to be called every time SIGALRM is delivered.  I expect this
> isn't really answering your underlying question, and I'm afraid I did not
> really follow the question.  But have you fixed the
> problem (whatever it was) already, in trunk bzr 117574?

Yes.  The question was "where is my SIGARLM from POSIX interval timer?"
Since atimer expiration is absolute, we should arm the system timer using
absolute time (with TIMER_ABSTIME) but not relative (which is by default).

Dmitry