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by wofo·2y ago·view on hn ↗
As someone who once in a while dabbles in Linux systems programming, is there any reason to use signalfd over timerfd when all you want is a timer? The article suggests you can use signals as timers, which left me wondering...
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No, timerfd is a better tool for that now. But it wasn't invented until 2008 or so.