Enji Cooper

> @jmmv why do you need CLA? :/ This is a Google sponsored project, so one needs to sign the Google CLA in order to contribute to it.

@pemensik: does it show skipped with ‘prove -v’, by chance?

> No, perl implementation does not handle it well also. > > ``` > prove -v ./timer_test > ./timer_test .. > [==========] Running 0 test(s). > [==========] 0 test(s) run....

The timer creation (setitimer...) should be replaced with timer_create (see #164 for more details).

I concur. This would be really nice (not just for CPU bound systems, but I/O bound and memory bound systems as well)

Should be easy to implement (use closefrom on *BSD at least; forget the syscall on Linux for doing this).

> Indeed, great thoughts in general! > > I used swig for generating python bindings from C code, and it creates tons of wrappers, but if this can be avoided...

> It could be annoying to figure out exactly which old and diverse systems need `_GNU_SOURCE` and for what ... Supporting a decade old POSIX spec conforming Linux (2008) or...

@jamesmishra: ping?

I would really appreciate if this could be merged. Displaying status for draft PRs in Slack goes against the spirit of draft PRs IMHO.