Re: triggering an event every 5 minutes in C

From: John Smith (john.smith_at_x-formation.com)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:26:36 +0100

> I am trying to figure out what the best way to have my program do
> something (change the value of a variable) every x number of minutes. Can
> somebody give me a pointer in the right direction? I am writing in C in
> a linux environment.
>

One way is to start a thread, sleep for 5 mins, change the variable and go
to sleep again.

Look into pthreads (threads and mutex since you need to have to establish a
lock between the threads accessing your variable).

-- John

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