Re: Linux application level timers?

[george anzinger]

Tom Sanders wrote:
> 
> I'm writing an application server which receives
> requests from other applications. For each request
> received, I want to start a timer so that I can fail
> the application request if it could not be completed
> in max specified time.
> 
> Which Linux timer facility can be used for this?
> 
> I have checked out alarm() and signal() system calls,
> but these calls doesn't take an argument, so its not
> possible to associate application request with the
> matured alarm.

Sounds like a job for POSIX clocks & timers.  See here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/

-g
> 
> Any inputs?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Tom
> 
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