From: george anzinger <george@mvista.com>
To: Tom Sanders <developer_linux@yahoo.com>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
redhat-devel-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linux application level timers?
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:35:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E2F2ACB.E74DEFBC@mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030122221703.42913.qmail@web9806.mail.yahoo.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.
Sounds like a job for POSIX clocks & timers. See here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
-g
>
> Any inputs?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
>
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George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Preemption patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-22 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-22 22:17 Linux application level timers? Tom Sanders
2003-01-22 23:03 ` Steven Dake
2003-01-22 23:35 ` george anzinger [this message]
2003-01-23 4:36 ` Gerhard Mack
2003-01-23 8:37 ` Narsimha Reddy CH
2003-01-23 8:51 ` Riku Meskanen
2003-01-23 16:28 ` Chris Friesen
2003-01-23 17:26 ` DervishD
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