On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:28:45PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> Lots of ways to flay that feline. Look at setitimer and getitimer.
>
> Also, for really crude stuff, look at the alarm system call. You can use
> it by maybe setting your timer for something in the decade range and then
> calling alarm whenever you want. The return will give you the time
> remaining.
Alas, if only it were that easy. 8)
For starters, I'm in the middle of multithreading the app. setitimer
and getitimer are far from threadsafe (if only because of their use
of the alarm call).
Secondly, I'm looking for something that I can poll, not a single
timer.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
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