Josep Vidal UPVLC jvidal@disca.upv.es Fidel Gonzalez UPVLC Fidel@fie.uclv.edu.cu Ismael Ripoll UPVLC iripoll@disca.upv.es 2003 OCERA Consortium RTLinux PSignals Real-Time, POSIX, timers POSIX timers provides mechanisms to notify a thread when the time (measured by a particular clock) has reached a specified value, or when a specified amount of time has passed. Although RTLinux has good and accurate timing facilities, it does not provide general timer functionality. RTLinux defines only one timer for each thread, which is used to implement the periodic behaviour of the thread. This component implements the POSIX real-time extensions.