RE: Process Delay

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Scott Klement wrote:

When you use the setitimer() function you can't help but use signals.
setitimer uses signals as a trigger.  I simply added another signal to
shut down gracefully.  If you use setitimer() at all, you will by
necessity use signals (at least this is true on linux - if this isn't
true on OS/400 then just say so).

My complaint was that you used the signal() API, not that signals were
sent to the process.

It's true that setitimer() sends a signal to your program.  That does not,
however, mean that you have to use signal() to catch it. My assertion is
that it'd be a better example if you used sigaction() instead of signal().

Because the example is relevant to the post that setitimer() could solve
the problem.

I already suggested that setitimer() could solve the problem.  You
responded to that with "Look at my wonderful Linux C program".
Unfortunately, that program neither works on the iSeries, or is written in
RPG, consequently doesn't do an iSeries RPG programmer any good.

James Rich

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