tchrist@convex.com (Tom Christiansen) (02/09/90)
I could use syslog() (and openlog() and closelog()) as well
as [sg]etitimer and alarm() and usleep in perl, although
I think I can get by without them.
I can simulate syslog() by calling /usr/ucb/logger and the
itimer stuff using syscall(). I'll write them up and
post them when I'm happy with them, but they might deserve
to be built-ins, since they'll be called several times each.
On the other hand, they won't be very happy on non-BSD systems.
--tom
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