alarm()

[Joel Sherrill]

On 7/19/2013 10:21 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> Hello,
>
> should it be possible to use alarm() from interrupt context?  There are some
> race conditions in this function I need to fix.
>
I personally don't think it makes sense to use it from an ISR.
If you want to return an error for that case, I think it is OK.

It is certainly beyond anything the POSIX standard addresses.

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