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If using a pthread instead of a timer signal is more reliable, and has no known drawbacks, then FreeBSD is also capable of supporting this mode of operation (tested on FreeBSD 12 with GHC 8.8.1, but no reason why it would not also work on FreeBSD 11 or GHC 8.6). Proposed by Kevin Zhang in: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241849
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