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Just like when you are in line at a ticket window. Your kid comes up and say we need one more ticket. You cannot do anything about it until it is "your turn".

And "jiffies" resolution may or may not help in a single CPU box. The process still cannot process a signal until it is the current running process.
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UALARM(3)						   BSD Library Functions Manual 						 UALARM(3)

NAME
ualarm -- schedule signal after specified time LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS
#include <unistd.h> useconds_t ualarm(useconds_t microseconds, useconds_t interval); DESCRIPTION
This is a simplified interface to setitimer(2). The ualarm() function waits a count of microseconds before asserting the terminating signal SIGALRM. System activity or time used in pro- cessing the call may cause a slight delay. If the interval argument is non-zero, the SIGALRM signal will be sent to the process every interval microseconds after the timer expires (e.g. after microseconds microseconds have passed). RETURN VALUES
When the signal has successfully been caught, ualarm() returns the amount of time left on the clock. The maximum number of microseconds allowed is 2147483647. If there is an error setting the timer, ualarm() returns ((useconds_t) -1). SEE ALSO
getitimer(2), setitimer(2), sigaction(2), sigsuspend(2), alarm(3), signal(3), sigvec(3), sleep(3), usleep(3) STANDARDS
The ualarm() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (``POSIX.1''). However, the later IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (``POSIX.1'') revision removed the function from the specification. HISTORY
The ualarm() function appeared in 4.3BSD. BSD
May 2, 2011 BSD