implement POSIX timers

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.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/time/timer_delete.c b/src/time/timer_delete.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d7c7670f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/time/timer_delete.c
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#include <time.h>
+#include "pthread_impl.h"
+
+int timer_delete(timer_t t)
+{
+	if (t->thread) pthread_cancel(t->thread);
+	else {
+		if (t->timerid >= 0) __syscall(SYS_timer_delete, t->timerid);
+		free(t);
+	}
+	return 0;
+}