On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Cedric Blancher
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Does ksh have a plugin to handle multiple timers? I'm looking for
> something which can set variables in regular intervals or issue
> one-shot events (e.g. timeout). The timers must be cancel-able, i.e.
> this is for a function library and the caller must not know about this
> or interfere with the timers used by a caller.

Use child processes to act as 'timers', e.g. they send you SIGRT*
signals and you kill them to cancel the timer? Communication can be
two-way via realtime signals, e.g. use kill -q to encode an interval
(sadly si_int is an int32_t so you're limited to just 2**32 values :)

Irek
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