From: "Edmund Horner" <edmund1 AT geocities DOT com>
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Thank you so much, that was an excellent example.

Unfortunately it seems that this alarm will only be checked if DOS calls
(such as IO) are made.  Do you have any suggestions for getting around this?

"Nate Eldredge" <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu> wrote in message
news:83aefniyuv DOT fsf AT mercury DOT bitbucket...
> "Edmund Horner" <edmund1 AT geocities DOT com> writes:
>
> > Requisite greetings to all,
> >
> > I'd like to be able to write a program that quits after a certain
duration
> > (say 5 minutes), and I expect this means using interrupts.
> >
> > Can anyway here give me a couple of tiny snippets of code as to how this
can
> > be achieved?
>
> Use the alarm function.
>
> void handler(int signum)
> {
>         clean_up();
>         printf("Bye bye\n");
>         exit(0);
> }
>
> ...
> signal(SIGALRM, handler);
> alarm(5 * 60);
> ...
>
> --
>
> Nate Eldredge
> neldredge AT hmc DOT edu