analog WaitForSingleObject for Unix or any interuptible timer
 

I am porting one small program on C from Windows to Linux and have got a problem. I have sort of "interruptible timer" - I implemented it using WaitForSingleObject with Event and timeout. I am waiting for some Event which can interrupt this waiting. I need to have the same on Linux platform where I am unfortunately a newbie. So my question is: if exist any way to do it - let my know if somebody know what can be used for implementation of this conception on *nix platform?

unix uses signals (Windows uses messages, which you call events).

Create a signal handler that will repsond to SIGALRM or SIGVTALRM.

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http://www.advancedlinuxprogramming.com/alp-folder

Thank you very much for advice and link, I'll try to use it