John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> said:
>You might want to try a pthread implementation too. I'm not sure 
>about the impact of the sig alarm on system calls and how good the 
>error checking is for that condition thruout the unix vm.
>
I'll probably rather solve the problem once and for all by creating a
memory-based implementation of gettimeofday. Shouldn't be too hard, and it's
reasonably easy to redirect system calls under Linux to your own
implementations (a module in the kernel and a custom lib in userspace). Just
have to scrape the rust of my Linux kernel hacking (my last patch to the
kernel is probably dated '93 ;-))...



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