[Asterisk-Dev] ztdummy? is it necessary?

[Jason DiCioccio]

Greetings,
  I was having a conversation with someone the other day and was informed
that ztdummy is basically unnecessary in BSD and perhaps in more recent
linux kernels.  Is this indeed the case?  Would you need to run asterisk
at a realtime priority for this to work?  Getting rid of the ztdummy
requirement would be an amazing win for OS portability, as long as it
could rely on the OS's realtime timer.