In our previous episode, Henry Vermaak said: > > > Should be doable, as well. AFAIK, mse (for Linux) uses signals on that > > > behalf. We might want to steal some ideas there. > > > > While there is sigalarm, but can you have multiple independent timers in an > > application that way? > > I think Martin used setitimer and handles multiple timers by calculating > which one expires first, and subtracting that amount from the other > timers, etc.
That's a trick commonly done on embedded platforms with limited timers (I actually did it once as part of a course that created a small RTOS for 8051 chips), but on *nix systems where libraries might also reserve certain itimers, that could fail miserably. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
