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From: askeya <askeya@res.raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Timers in application
Date: 1999/06/09
Date: 1999-06-09T18:55:15+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <375EC6A0.205BC7B4@res.raytheon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 375D1E02.8F1C0D6E@res.raytheon.com

"Delay_Until" it is then.  Thanx for all the input and the education.

Andy

askeya wrote:
> 
> I am developing a Solaris 2.6 application (Ada95 with Apex) that needs a
> timer service that allows me to schedule multiple simultaneous wakeups.
> I have looked at "setitimer" and "alarm" man pages, but these services
> appear to only allow one timer per process and/or thread.  Is this
> correct?
> 
> I have read some postings about Posix timers, but can not figure out any
> key words to use for man pages.  Will Posix timers allow multiple
> simultaneous timers?  If so, what man pages can I look at?
> 
> Any other ideas for timer services I can use?  I need a granularity of
> at least 100 milliseconds, but faster would be better.  I am developing
> in Ada95 but can create interfaces into standard C libs if necessary.
> 
> Thanx.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~1999-06-09  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-06-08  0:00 Timers in application askeya
1999-06-08  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-06-08  0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-08  0:00   ` James E. Hopper
1999-06-09  0:00     ` dennison
1999-06-08  0:00 ` David Brown
1999-06-08  0:00 ` dennison
1999-06-09  0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-06-09  0:00 ` askeya [this message]
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