You can also use the poll() system call. The last arguement of this system call is the timeout value is milli-seconds. When timeout is occurred it will return 0. Refer the manual page for more details. hope this helps you, -- Narsimha Reddy CH Storage Area Networking, HCL Technologies Contact +91-044 2372 8366 ext 1128 http://san.hcltech.com http://www.hcltech.com Tom Sanders wrote: > > I'm writing an application server which receives > requests from other applications. For each request > received, I want to start a timer so that I can fail > the application request if it could not be completed > in max specified time. > > Which Linux timer facility can be used for this? > > I have checked out alarm() and signal() system calls, > but these calls doesn't take an argument, so its not > possible to associate application request with the > matured alarm. > > Any inputs? > > Thanks in advance, > Tom > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
