title: What are the other timer APIs in Linux apart from POSIX timers?
body: <p>I want to design a timer in Linux, but due to some system constraints and design requirements i cannot use the POSIX timer APIs.</p>
  
  <p>Can somebody kindly let me know, what are the other timer design mechanisms available in Linux apart from the POSIX timers? (timer_create, timer_settime etc to avoid)</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT: P.S: Any mechanism you provide, requesting you to kindly give me some useful links or example links</strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>NOTE: We can't use any third party library (Like ACE library) as our code is a proprietory code.</strong></p>