> > >Adding a general purpose timer allocation method (allocitimer, then
> > >sigaction and setitimer):
> > 
> > Is this the option that involved modifying struct sigaction?
> > While it probably wouldn't break my libsig or any other code, 
> > I'd still be happier if we could leave that one alone.
> 
> No.  You'd do this sort of thing:

That's fine then, thanks for clarifying.

--sjg