Re: triggering an event every 5 minutes in C

From: David Schwartz (davids_at_webmaster.com)
Date: 03/15/05 

Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:27:01 -0800

"Jon Zero" <jzero@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2005.03.15.17.04.30.947909@nospam.net...

>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.

    It depends a lot upon the whole structure of the rest of your program.
For example, if it's multi-threaded, the answer is totally different. If
it's an event loop, the answer is totally different.

    DS

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