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.\" Copyright (c) 2003 Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
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.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111,
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.\" USA.
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.TH UALARM 3 2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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ualarm \- schedule signal after given number of microseconds
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.B "#include <unistd.h>"
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.sp
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.BI "useconds_t ualarm(useconds_t " usecs ", useconds_t " interval );
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.fi
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.sp
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.in -4n
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Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
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.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
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.in
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.sp
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.BR ualarm ():
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_BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The
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.BR ualarm ()
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function causes the signal
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.B SIGALRM
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to be sent to the invoking process after (not less than)
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.I usecs
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microseconds.
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The delay may be lengthened slightly by any system activity
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or by the time spent processing the call or by the
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granularity of system timers.
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.LP
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Unless caught or ignored, the
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.B SIGALRM
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signal will terminate the process.
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.LP
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If the
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.I interval
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argument is non-zero, further
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.B SIGALRM
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signals will be sent every
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.I interval
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microseconds after the first.
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.SH "RETURN VALUE"
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This function returns the number of microseconds remaining for
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any alarm that was previously set, or 0 if no alarm was pending.
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.SH ERRORS
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.TP
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.B EINTR
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Interrupted by a signal.
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.TP
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.B EINVAL
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\fIusecs\fP or \fIinterval\fP is not smaller than 1000000.
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(On systems where that is considered an error.)
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.SH "CONFORMING TO"
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4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
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POSIX.1-2001 marks
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.BR ualarm ()
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as obsolete.
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.\" FIXME . Mar 08: The next POSIX.1 revision removes ualarm().
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4.3BSD, SUSv2, and POSIX do not define any errors.
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.SH NOTES
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The type
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.I useconds_t
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is an unsigned integer type capable of holding integers
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in the range [0,1000000].
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On the original BSD implementation, and in glibc before version 2.1,
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the arguments to
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.BR ualarm ()
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were instead typed as
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.IR "unsigned int" .
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Programs will be more portable if they never mention
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.I useconds_t
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explicitly.
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.LP
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The interaction of this function with
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other timer functions such as
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.BR alarm (2),
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.BR sleep (3),
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.BR nanosleep (2),
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.BR setitimer (2),
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.BR timer_create (3),
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.BR timer_delete (3),
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.BR timer_getoverrun (3),
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.BR timer_gettime (3),
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.BR timer_settime (3),
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.BR usleep (3)
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is unspecified.
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.LP
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This function is obsolete.
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Use
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.BR setitimer (2)
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or POSIX interval timers
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.RB ( timer_create (3),
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etc.)
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instead.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR alarm (2),
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.BR getitimer (2),
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.BR nanosleep (2),
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.BR select (2),
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.BR setitimer (2),
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.BR usleep (3),
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.BR time (7)
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