Re: timer implementation

From: Adie (a_usenetizen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 04/29/03

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    Valentin Nechayev <netch@segfault.kiev.ua> wrote:

    >>>> Srinivas Mudigonda wrote:
    >
    >SM> I am a novice unix programmer. I would like to know, how to implement
    >SM> multiple timers for a process. both in user process and kernel timers. Any
    >SM> leads about doing this would be a great favour to me.
    >
    >Make queue for requested events, sorted by their times. Even if timer
    >is used for periodical polling of something, this polling is treated as event.
    >If you want to use signals, use setitimer() for call a signal for the next
    >time it is requested. Otherwise, program can sleep on select() or something
    >similar with high resolution timeout.
    >For a ready-to-use library with its, see ISC eventlib (separately or in BIND
    >product).

    Hi, do you know if there ia a timer api that can be used in Linux and
    Unix from C++? I'd like to implement some sort of time out for my
    sockets program.

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