Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: "gilles BOURGEOIS" To: Subject: setitimer/SIGVTALRM error form cygwin shell. Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 09:27:56 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal X-MDRemoteIP: 192.168.1.35 X-Return-Path: gbourgeois@yaccom.com X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Hello I am trying to simulate a tick timer under cygwin but it does not work : with the following code : /* Initialise timer structure */ interval.it_interval.tv_sec = 1; interval.it_interval.tv_usec = 0; interval.it_value.tv_sec = 1; interval.it_value.tv_usec = 0; /* Initialise virtual timer */ if (!sigaction (SIGVTALRM, &sigact, 0)) { if ( (err=setitimer (ITIMER_PROF, &s_Rtk_interval, NULL)) <0) {printf ("StartTimer could not setitimer %d\n",err); printf ("errno errno = %d (%s).\n", errno, strerror(errno)); exit (0); } } else { fprintf( stderr, "Erreur :%d\n", errno ); } I got the invalid argument (errno) error ?? did someone manage the use of virtual timer under cygwin? thanks gilles -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/