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Top Forums Programming How to periodically execute a function in C ?? Post 302148030 by RipClaw on Thursday 29th of November 2007 01:17:49 PM
Old 11-29-2007
Tools How to periodically execute a function in C ??

Hi,

I am looking for a C library feature, to which I can say execute a function every 10 seconds.

for Eg
Code:
#include <timer_lib.h>
fun1(){
      printf("I am still cool "); 
}

int main(){
   run(10,&fun1); // Should register & execute the function fun1 every 10 seconds
 return 0x0;
}

I am not interested in using the sleep function in a while loop or something..
Is there such a feature in the standard C library ??. I have heard about such facilities available on the kernel libraries.
 

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SLEEP(3)								 1								  SLEEP(3)

sleep - Delay execution

SYNOPSIS
int sleep (int $seconds) DESCRIPTION
Delays the program execution for the given number of $seconds. PARAMETERS
o $seconds - Halt time in seconds. RETURN VALUES
Returns zero on success, or FALSE on error. If the call was interrupted by a signal, sleep(3) returns a non-zero value. On Windows, this value will always be 192 (the value of the WAIT_IO_COMPLETION constant within the Windows API). On other platforms, the return value will be the number of seconds left to sleep. ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS If the specified number of $seconds is negative, this function will generate a E_WARNING. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.3.4 | | | | | | | Before PHP 5.3.4, on Windows, sleep(3) always | | | returns NULL when sleep has occurred, regardless | | | of whether the sleep was interrupted or not. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
Example #1 sleep(3) example <?php // current time echo date('h:i:s') . " "; // sleep for 10 seconds sleep(10); // wake up ! echo date('h:i:s') . " "; ?> This example will output (after 10 seconds) 05:31:23 05:31:33 SEE ALSO
usleep(3), time_nanosleep(3), time_sleep_until(3), set_time_limit(3). PHP Documentation Group SLEEP(3)
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