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2011-03-30optimize timer creation and possibly protect against some minor racesRich Felker-14/+19
the major idea of this patch is not to depend on having the timer pointer delivered to the signal handler, and instead use the thread pointer to get the callback function address and argument. this way, the parent thread can make the timer_create syscall while the child thread is starting, and it should never have to block waiting for the barrier.
2011-03-29reorder timer initialization so that timer_create does not depend on freeRich Felker-8/+16
this allows small programs which only create times, but never delete them, to use simple_malloc instead of the full malloc.
2011-03-29implement POSIX timersRich Felker-0/+110
this implementation is superior to the glibc/nptl implementation, in that it gives true realtime behavior. there is no risk of timer expiration events being lost due to failed thread creation or failed malloc, because the thread is created as time creation time, and reused until the timer is deleted.