UALARM(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 UALARM(3)

NAME

       ualarm - schedule signal after given number of microseconds

SYNOPSIS

       #include <unistd.h>

       useconds_t ualarm(useconds_t usecs, useconds_t interval);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       ualarm(): _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500

DESCRIPTION

       The ualarm() function causes the signal SIGALRM to be sent to the invoking process after (not less than) usecs microseconds.  The delay may
       be lengthened slightly by any system activity or by the time spent processing the call or by the granularity of system timers.

       Unless caught or ignored, the SIGALRM signal will terminate the process.

       If the interval argument is nonzero, further SIGALRM signals will be sent every interval microseconds after the first.

RETURN VALUE

       This function returns the number of microseconds remaining for any alarm that was previously set, or 0 if no alarm was pending.

ERRORS

       EINTR  Interrupted by a signal.

       EINVAL usecs or interval is not smaller than 1000000.  (On systems where that is considered an error.)

CONFORMING TO

       4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.  POSIX.1-2001 marks ualarm() as obsolete.	POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of ualarm().   4.3BSD,  SUSv2,  and
       POSIX do not define any errors.

NOTES

       The  type useconds_t is an unsigned integer type capable of holding integers in the range [0,1000000].  On the original BSD implementation,
       and in glibc before version 2.1, the arguments to ualarm() were instead typed as unsigned int.  Programs will  be  more	portable  if  they
       never mention useconds_t explicitly.

       The  interaction  of  this  function  with  other  timer functions such as alarm(2), sleep(3), nanosleep(2), setitimer(2), timer_create(2),
       timer_delete(2), timer_getoverrun(2), timer_gettime(2), timer_settime(2), usleep(3) is unspecified.

       This function is obsolete.  Use setitimer(2) or POSIX interval timers (timer_create(2), etc.)  instead.

SEE ALSO

       alarm(2), getitimer(2), nanosleep(2), select(2), setitimer(2), usleep(3), time(7)

COLOPHON

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								    2008-08-06								 UALARM(3)