Hi Davi,

Could you suggest any links on the web to look into ! We need around
25 timers which can run in parallel. Similar functionality what POSIX
timers support.

Regards
Girish

On Feb 2, 5:10 pm, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I suggest you to look at POSIX's timer_create() and related functions.
>
> If you want your handlers to run in parrallel, just use one distinct
> SIGEV_THREAD per timer.
> No need to use any signals here.
>
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Girish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > David,
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > How should the problem be resoloved in our case ? SIGRTMIN and
> > SIGRTMAX was available in the previous port of middleware application
> > and it was a difference of 32 between.So per process we were able to
> > create at the max of 32 timers for our middleware C application..
> > (SIGRTMAX-SIGRTMIN = 32)
>
> > I hope you can understand the scenario, Is there anyways to use a
> > single user space (SIGUSR1) signal to hanldle multiple timers in
> > parallel ? Is there anything like soft timers ?  Can you give us some
> > clues ?
>
> > Regards
> > Girish
>
> > On Feb 2, 7:33 am, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > the cupcake C library already supports real-time timers through
> > > timer_create().
> > > real-time signals are a different thing and they are not currently
> > > supported.
>
> > > For the record, with other C libraries, not all of SIGRTMIN .. SIGRTMAX
> > is
> > > available to application-defined purposes.
> > > The implementation usually reserves a few signals for its own use. Which
> > one
> > > exactly depends on the C library you're
> > > using, so things aren't exactly too portable here.
>
> > > On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:14 PM, Girish <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Hi David,
>
> > > > Will there be any support for POSIX RT timers in near future.  As the
> > > > application needs more than 20 timers. In POSIX it was achievable
> > > > because of the fact that it was supporting SIGRTMIN to SIGRTMAX, are a
> > > > set of signals that can be used for application-defined purposes.
>
> > > > > Or using one thread per timer, each one simply doing a timed wait ?
> > > > For now please explain us how to develop timer functionality in
> > > > parallel.
>
> > > > Regards
> > > > Girish
>
> > > > On Feb 1, 8:26 am, David Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Maybe by using a single signal with a sorted timer queue ?
> > > > > Or using one thread per timer, each one simply doing a timed wait ?
>
> > > > > Any code that requires 25 signals is not going to work, on any
> > platform
>
> > > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 1:16 AM, kd.itbhu <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
>
> > > > > > Hi;
> > > > > > I need around 25 times which can run simultaneously.
> > > > > > But we have two type singnals ISGUSR1 and SIGUSR2.
> > > > > > So only two timers can run simultaneously.
>
> > > > > > Do we have anyother way to run more than 2 timers simultaneously.
>
> > > > > > Please help me rregarding it.
>
> > > > > > Thanks in advance
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