Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:35:39 -0800 | From | george anzinger <> | Subject | Re: Linux application level timers? |
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Tom Sanders wrote: > > I'm writing an application server which receives > requests from other applications. For each request > received, I want to start a timer so that I can fail > the application request if it could not be completed > in max specified time. > > Which Linux timer facility can be used for this? > > I have checked out alarm() and signal() system calls, > but these calls doesn't take an argument, so its not > possible to associate application request with the > matured alarm.
Sounds like a job for POSIX clocks & timers. See here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
-g > > Any inputs? > > Thanks in advance, > Tom > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- George Anzinger george@mvista.com High-res-timers: http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/ Preemption patch: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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