On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 23:33 +0900, kirthika varadarajan wrote: > I am writing a simple application in which i need to generate an event > for every 5 min. > > I just created a thread inside the thread i need to create an event > for every 5 min. > > I refered to DM6467, there the timers are in kernel and i am not able > to link it in my application. > > Suggest me how to generate events for every 5 min . >
One way would be to use setitimer() from your application and watch for signals using sigaction(). For eg: you could install a signal handler to watch for expiry after the desired duration for SIGVTALRM. Regards, Philby _______________________________________________ Davinci-linux-open-source mailing list Davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com http://linux.davincidsp.com/mailman/listinfo/davinci-linux-open-source
