Hello, I'm new in this list and I apologize in advance if my questions are too basic. I'm writing an application which "talks" with a number of test devices connected to a gpib card and I'm using for this the open source linux gpib driver (http://linux-gpib.sourceforge.net). This is a multithread application, each thread for each device as each device has it's own device descriptor to read from and write to it. Within various states of the state machine of each thread, I need to implement a look, sending a query to the device for it's current state and reading the response. The loop may end in 2 ways: either the device has transitioned to a new state or timeout has occured and no transition happened during this time. Those timers are my problem here. The timers may vary within a thread, depending on the expected state and, each thread has to have it's own timers independent of the other threads. I cannot implement this by using alarm, setitimer and getitimer as they are process wide and not thread safe. So I wonder if libevent may be the appropriate tool to help me implement those timers. If indeed, then how should I use it and which functions are relevant for this case? I'll continue to investigate this by myself, but any assistance I can get from the list members will be most appreciated. Thanks in advance, and sorry for the lengthy and detailed message. Regards, Rafi.
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