02-16-2019
Thanks nezabudka!
I plugged in your first suggestion and it seems to work just fine! I think I will use that code for now, though I will study your's and other commenters' more compact, elegant solutions later when I have more time: I'm such a neophyte I actually find that the least elegant, most sprawling code is often the easiest for me to understand. Its like learning how clocks work from disassembling one: you want to start with a cheap, simple bedside alarm clock, not a finely crafted rolex!
Again, thank you so much for your help!
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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 3.44 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)