Re: Best way to implement a resettable timer.
From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 05/27/04
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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 12:27:28 -0400
In article <xKudnSWVeor1livdRVn_vQ@giganews.com>,
RJGraham <null@null.com> wrote:
> What's the best way to to implement a resettable timer, kind of like a
> watchdog timer that can be reset.
>
> I want to be able to start a timer to wait on an event, and either
> timeout, or reset the timer to wait on the next event. The idea here is
> to detect timeouts in my application.
Use alarm() to schedule a SIGALRM signal. Since there's only one such
timer per process, every time you reschedule it the previous one will be
reset.
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