Josep Vidal UPVLC jvidal@disca.upv.es Fidel Gonzalez UPVLC Fidel@fie.uclv.edu.cu 2002 OCERA Consortium Real-Time, POSIX, timers RTLinux Ismael Ripoll UPVLC iripoll@disca.upv.es POSIX timers allows a mechanism that can notify a thread when the time as measured by a particular clock has reached or passed a specified value, or when a specified amount of time has passed. Although RTLinux has good and accurate timing facilities, it do not provides 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 realtime extensions.