You can use signals and system timers, for example see the "alarm" and
"setitimer" functions in the libc info files. You also need to work out how to
write a signal handler.
If you do not need too much precision, you can use the "sleep" function in a
loop.
Cheers
Erich
On Mon, 07 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> hi all
>
> i am writing a c program and i want it to lie dormant then every say 5
> mins wake up and test somthing and then lie again. It has to be c native
> so i can port it but it must work in linux for the moment, i have
> thought about using time_t but to test that i end up in
> endless loops and all sorts of ugly things.
>
> Q
> is there a way to wake up a prog every x seconds in C so no scripts please
> :-)
>
>
> thanks
> ghoti
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