getitimer.2: Note that POSIX.1-2008 recommends POSIX timers API instead of this API

Reported-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" Modified Tue Oct 22 00:22:35 EDT 1996 by Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
.\" 2005-04-06 mtk, Matthias Lang <matthias@corelatus.se>
.\" Noted MAX_SEC_IN_JIFFIES ceiling
.TH GETITIMER 2 2009-02-11 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH GETITIMER 2 2009-03-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
getitimer, setitimer \- get or set value of an interval timer
.SH SYNOPSIS
@ -146,7 +146,10 @@ POSIX.1-2008 marks
.BR getitimer ()
and
.BR setitimer ()
obsolete.
obsolete, recommending the use of the POSIX timers API
.RB ( timer_gettime (2),
.BR timer_settime (2),
etc.) instead.
.SH NOTES
A child created via
.BR fork (2)