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Top Forums Programming Basic signal and alarm usage Post 302119152 by enuenu on Monday 28th of May 2007 08:16:31 AM
Old 05-28-2007
Thanks a lot. matrixmadhan your code almost works perfectly. The only thing it doesn't do is loop infinitely between "The ALARM...." and "Snoozing.....".

It starts by displaying "Snoozing....." than after 5 seconds "The ALARM....". This is good. But then "The ALARM...." stays on screen forever. I want it to then revert back to "Snoozing....." and then back to "The ALARM...." etc etc etc in an infinite loop every 5 seconds.

I will try to modify. Any more hints appreciated.

Last edited by enuenu; 05-28-2007 at 09:41 AM..
 

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ALARM(2)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							  ALARM(2)

NAME
alarm - set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> unsigned int alarm(unsigned int seconds); DESCRIPTION
alarm() arranges for a SIGALRM signal to be delivered to the calling process in seconds seconds. If seconds is zero, no new alarm() is scheduled. In any event any previously set alarm() is canceled. RETURN VALUE
alarm() returns the number of seconds remaining until any previously scheduled alarm was due to be delivered, or zero if there was no pre- viously scheduled alarm. CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD. NOTES
alarm() and setitimer(2) share the same timer; calls to one will interfere with use of the other. sleep(3) may be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm() and sleep(3) is a bad idea. Scheduling delays can, as ever, cause the execution of the process to be delayed by an arbitrary amount of time. SEE ALSO
gettimeofday(2), pause(2), select(2), setitimer(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), sleep(3), time(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. Linux 2008-06-12 ALARM(2)
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