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ualarm
Langue: en
Version: 2003-07-24 (fedora - 16/08/07)
Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)
NAME
ualarm - schedule signal after given number of microsecondsSYNOPSIS
#define _XOPEN_SOURCE 500 /* Or: #define _BSD_SOURCE */ #include <unistd.h> useconds_t ualarm(useconds_t usecs, useconds_t interval);
DESCRIPTION
The ualarm() function causes the signal SIGALRM to be sent to the invoking process after (not less than) usecs microseconds. The delay may be lengthened slightly by any system activity or by the time spent processing the call or by the granularity of system timers.Unless caught or ignored, the SIGALRM signal will terminate the process.
If the interval argument is non-zero, further SIGALRM signals will be sent every interval microseconds after the first.
RETURN VALUE
This function returns the number of microseconds remaining for any alarm that was previously set, or 0 if no alarm was pending.ERRORS
- EINTR
- Interrupted by a signal.
- EINVAL
- usecs or interval is not smaller than 1000000. (On systems where that is considered an error.)
CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2001 marks ualarm() as obsolete. 4.3BSD, SUSv2, and POSIX do not define any errors.NOTES
The type useconds_t is an unsigned integer type capable of holding integers in the range [0,1000000]. On the original BSD implementation, and in glibc before version 2.1, the arguments to ualarm() were instead typed as unsigned int. Programs will be more portable if they never mention useconds_t explicitly.The interaction of this function with other timer functions such as alarm(), sleep(), nanosleep(), setitimer(), timer_create(), timer_delete(), timer_getoverrun(), timer_gettime(), timer_settime(), usleep() is unspecified.
This function is obsolete. Use setitimer(2) or POSIX interval timers (timer_create(), etc.) instead.
SEE ALSO
alarm(2), getitimer(2), nanosleep(2), select(2), setitimer(2), usleep(3), feature_test_macros(7), time(7)Contenus ©2006-2024 Benjamin Poulain
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