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NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       alarm - set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

       #include <unistd.h>

       unsigned int alarm(unsigned int seconds);

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       alarm  arranges	for a SIGALRM signal to be delivered to the process in
       seconds seconds.

       If seconds is zero, no new alarm is scheduled.

       In any event any previously set alarm is cancelled.

RETURN VALUE    [Toc]    [Back]

       alarm returns the number of  seconds  remaining	until  any  previously
       scheduled alarm was due to be delivered, or zero if there was no previously
 scheduled alarm.

NOTES    [Toc]    [Back]

       alarm and setitimer share the same timer; calls to one  will  interfere
       with use of the other.

       sleep()	may  be implemented using SIGALRM; mixing calls to alarm() and
       sleep() is a bad idea.

       Scheduling delays can, as ever, cause the execution of the  process  to
       be delayed by an arbitrary amount of time.

CONFORMING TO    [Toc]    [Back]

       SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

      
      
       setitimer(2),   signal(2),  sigaction(2),  gettimeofday(2),  select(2),
       pause(2), sleep(3)



Linux				  1993-07-21			      ALARM(2)
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