scenarios like periodic alarms at fifteen minutes after every hour,
or on the first day of each month.
Such usage is nonportable;
-portable user-space code only expects a single alarm interrupt, and
+portable user-space code expects only a single alarm interrupt, and
will either disable or reinitialize the alarm after receiving it.
Some RTCs support periodic interrupts with periods that are multiples
.I Documentation/rtc.txt
in the Linux kernel source tree
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