Actually what it says is: "Only a single signal shall be queued to the
process for a given timer at any point in time. When a timer for which
a signal is still pending expires, no signal shall be queued, and a
timer overrun shall occur."
It then goes on to talk about the overrun count and how it is to be
managed.
What I am suggesting is that the system should detect when these
interrupts would come so fast as to stall the system and just set up a
percent of them while bumping the overrun count as if they had all
occured.
George
>
> this has some interesting consequences for signal handling and signal
> delivery implementations, but importantly, it ensures that even a flood of
> POSIX timers with very short repeat intervals will be handled cleanly.
>
> I will get more detailed comments to you tomorrow.
>
> Mark Salisbury
>
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