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Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 06:51:23 +1100
From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Michael B Allen <ioplex@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 01:41:10PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote:
>I need semtimedop(2). I'm thinking I can just do a semop with a SIGINT may=
be.

I presume you mean SIGALRM.

>Can someone suggest a good method for setting up a timer to deliver
>the signal? What sort of timers does FreeBSD offer?

Assuming you aren't planning on creating a new syscall: man setitimer
There's also kqueue EVFILT_TIMER but that is probably only useful if
you are already using kqueue for other purposes.

--=20
Peter

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