# Replace setitimer(2) by timer\_settime(2)

- From: Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-10-30 20:30:01 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/10/7910183
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/10/7910183/t.md

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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
Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
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