[Bug librt/28799] [Feature request] Enhanced timer_create()/timer_delete(), for MS Windows parity

["ulatekh at yahoo dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28799

--- Comment #2 from Steven Boswell II <ulatekh at yahoo dot com> ---
Although my limited testing shows that, indeed, this allows the timer to get
shut down cleanly, it reveals another problem.

Apparently, in the Linux implementation, a new thread is created (and quickly
destroyed) for every invocation of a callback-based timer, accompanied by a
flood of "New Thread" and "Thread exited" messages in my gdb window. (The timer
in question is invoked 40 times per second.)

My reading of glibc's sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/timer_routines.c concurs;
timer_helper_thread() repeatedly invokes pthread_create() on
timer_sigev_thread(), which runs the timer callback once and then exits.

So thanks for your help, but I'm just going to go back to my hand-rolled
thread-based timer implementation, which creates a thread per timer, not a
thread per timer-invocation.

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