analog WaitForSingleObject for Unix or any interuptible timer

Chris_tt · 02-06-2005, 05:09 PM

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?

jim mcnamara · 02-07-2005, 10:21 AM

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

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

Download the free book - Advanced Linux Programming

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

Chris_tt · 02-07-2005, 02:35 PM

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