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Top Forums Programming How to implement polling for a function using timer in C? Post 302144909 by naan on Sunday 11th of November 2007 10:44:00 PM
Old 11-11-2007
How to implement polling for a function using timer in C?

Hi,

Can you please help me in implementing a timer based polling for function in C? ie. the function should be called in say 30secs(when 30secs has lapsed).

Thanks
 

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timer_delete(3RT)					    Realtime Library Functions						 timer_delete(3RT)

NAME
timer_delete - delete a timer SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag... ] file... -lrt [ library... ] #include <time.h> int timer_delete(timer_t timerid); DESCRIPTION
The timer_delete() function deletes the specified timer, timerid, previously created by the timer_create(3RT) function. If the timer is armed when timer_delete() is called, the behavior will be as if the timer is automatically disarmed before removal. The disposition of pending signals for the deleted timer is unspecified. RETURN VALUES
If successful, the function returns 0. Otherwise, the function returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error. ERRORS
The timer_delete() function will fail if: EINVAL The timer ID specified by timerid is not a valid timer ID. ENOSYS The timer_delete() function is not supported by the system. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Standard | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe with exceptions | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
timer_create(3RT), attributes(5), standards(5) SunOS 5.10 28 Jun 2002 timer_delete(3RT)
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