Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:39:54 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Watchdog timers
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On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Thomas Demmer wrote:

> I'm trying to port a library from Linux to DOS
> and ran into the problem of implementing
> a watchdog timer. I first thought of
> alarm(), but it has only a resolution 
> of one second.

Isn't `itimer' what you are after?  If so, DJGPP supports it; look it up 
in the library reference.