From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge AT hmc DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Timers
Date: 12 Jul 2000 00:36:40 -0700
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"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);
...

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Nate Eldredge
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