From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Fri 11 Jun 2004 - 14:37:47 IDT
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:58:54AM +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Oron Peled wrote:
>
> >About disturbing other alarm/ualarms, you may want to look at Stevens
> >[advanced programming in the Unix environment, circa 1995] which has
> >a very nice chapter about implementing sleep(3) using alarm(2) with all
> >the common pittfalls (saving timers while setting them, avoiding critical
> >races in that stage, etc.)
> Anyone can send me an excert from this book? I don't have it.
You should run, not walk, to your nearest book seller and buy
it. It's the bible of UNIX system programming.
[you're welcome to borrow my well-thumbed copy, but I'll need it
back].
Cheers,
Muli
-- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/
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