On May 8, 4:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) wrote: > What do you expect from "timers on Linux" that you could not get with a > simple "sleep for the next N milliseconds"? A timer (on Linux or > elsewhere) can jog your process N milliseconds from now, e.g. with a > SIGALRM or SIGPROF, and you can set one with the setitimer syscall > (presumably accessible via ctypes, worst case -- I've never used it from > Python, yet), but how would that help you (compared to plain sleep, > select, poll, or whatever else best fits your need)?
I hoped there was a library such thay I could register a Python callable (say a thunk) and having it called by the linux timer at time t without blocking my process. But if a Linux timer will just send to my process an alarm, I would need to code myself a mechanism waiting for the alarm and doing the function call. In that case as you say, I would be better off with a select+timeout or a even with a queue+timeout, which already do most of the job. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
