Re: triggering an event every 5 minutes in C

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_inprovide.com)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:55:52 +0100

Jon Zero <jzero@nospam.net> writes:

> 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.

man setitimer 

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Måns Rullgård
mru@inprovide.com

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