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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