>> I want alarm() under Win32 so badly, I can taste it.
I hate to say it, but you're looking at it the wrong way.
Win32 doesn't do "pre-emptive notifications" between threads
(you have to look and see if you've been notified)
=> Therefore it doesn't support signal()
=> Therefore it doesn't support alarm()
If there was a way of faking it under Win32, then you'd have alarm() emulated
already.
Welcome to the sorry world of VMS, sorry NT....
Try looking at your problem a different way (eg where you'd have a main process
and interrupt it with an alarm(), instead spawn a worker thread which you ignore
as failed if it fails to return after a certain period of time).
I know it's not how Unix works, and I personally prefer Unix too, but try to
work with the strengths of the operating system, rather than its weaknesses
(that's a corruption of a Larry Wall quote BTW).
Regards
Tim
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