alarm(2)
getitimer(2) setitimer(2)
e.g. at
http://ct.enews.eweek.com/rd/cts?d=186-6271-53-799-1105599-695898-0-0-0-1
remember accuracy depends on the HZ setting for the kernel.
On Thu, 3 May 2007, Jason Stahls wrote:
> Ok, I know I can probably find this eventually, but can someone point me
> in the right direction please :)
>
> I'm trying to get a reliable timer, I've got a heart beat coming from a
> device attached over ethernet via UDP. I've got a counter incrementing
> everytime it gets a heartbeat packet. Now, I want to say once a second,
> check to see if that counter has been incremented, then clear it. How
> would I go about that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
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