timers and semtimedop(2)

[Peter Jeremy]

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:41:10PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
>I need semtimedop(2). I'm thinking I can just do a semop with a SIGINT maybe.

I presume you mean SIGALRM.

>Can someone suggest a good method for setting up a timer to deliver
>the signal? What sort of timers does FreeBSD offer?

Assuming you aren't planning on creating a new syscall: man setitimer
There's also kqueue EVFILT_TIMER but that is probably only useful if
you are already using kqueue for other purposes.

-- 
Peter
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