Actually these functions post a signal to a process but I do not want a signal instead of that I want that my callback function should get executed and it should post some sort of message to a POSIX thread. -----Original Message----- From: Ajey Kulkarni [mailto:ajey@xxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:54 PM To: Nilanjan Roychowdhury Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: timers in usermode getitimer/setitimer - Will that work for u?? regards ~A On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Nilanjan Roychowdhury wrote: > > What is the user mode equivalent of kernel timers. I need a function in > user mode programming like addtimer ( tick count, Cbfunc)..is it there > or I need to implement my own timer mechanism ??? > -NIlanjan > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/