Dear Gowri, For this you need to implement timer interrupt which will do the desired process after 3 seconds and continue to work where it left.
yogesh On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 07:07, R Gowri wrote: > Hi All, > > I want to wait for an event and timeout after a specific time period > specified. > > And it should also wait upon an event, on whose occurence it will > conrtinue with the initial processing. > > While waiting it should not use CPU cycles. > > I want to know how to implement this. > > just to be more clear, > > say... sleep(5), when this is sleeping if in the 3rd second the event > arrives it should go to its signal handler or whatever and continue with > the initial processing before it started sleeping. > > sleep can't be interrupted. > > so how should I implement it? > > Thanks. > Gowri. > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd _______________________________________________ ilugd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd