Implementing a Timeout in C/C++

Hello all -

I am attempting to implement a timeout condition in C/C++ and am
finding very little resources on doing such a thing. In ADA, I would
do something like this:

select
accept An_Entry do
end An_Entry;
or
delay 5.0;
Put("An_Entry: timeout");
end select;

but don't confuse ADA's select() with C's...

Anyway, what I'm trying to do is:

while (ERROR_CONDITION)
{
<Wait for either 10 Seconds to expire or ERROR_CONDITION == 0>
}

basically, a straitforward timeout...

Is there anyway to achieve this without using sleep? I have other
actions going on in the background that I don't want to suspend, I just
want a max-timed while loop - is that possible?? Trivial??

Thanks,
Wade

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